[sinkspur]

I enjoyed this essay.

I did too. I especially appreciated the highlighting of Jesus words:

He who is not against us is with us.

The Good Lord casts a wide net, doesnt' He?

[patent]

He who is not against us is with us.

The Good Lord casts a wide net, doesnt' He?

I think the reality is that we don’t know, and each of us has a bias that determines how we interpret these phrases. As the author said, “But at the mysterious periphery of the communion of saints, it's difficult to see what God is up to, so the Church doesn't presume to judge.”

Dominus Vobiscum

patent  +AMDG

[american colleen]

One of the reasons I enjoyed this essay is that it reminded me of the "Catholic" threads on FR. I had you for the resident "lefty" (sorry, but you fit the bill as far as FR goes - but you might be a "righty" in the real world!) and I'm racking my brains to figure out who'd be the "righty" - not sure on that one yet.

[ninenot]

When you come right down to it, the Church has always maintained doctrine which, in the final analysis, is just plain common sense.

That means that there are enemies to the left AND to the right--as Chesterton observed in his famous "still wildly reeling, but erect" word picture of the Church...