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To: ReagansRaiders; kstewskis; Victoria Delsoul; JoAnka; Raquel; Kelly_2000
Not only was he heavily influenced by John Paul the Great, but he is a solid Reaganite to boot. (He served as my College Republican Vice Chairman one year.)

Can we borrow him for a few years?

I was really struck at Anna Quindlen's editorial in Newsweek this week. She makes it clear she is catholic, and then finishes up her article on Pope John Paul II like this:

"When the pope appeared to be channeling Leviticus, standing for orthodoxy simply for orthodoxy's sake, he appeared less like a spiritual leader and more like an ecclesiastical politician. seeing only the trees and not the forest."

She admires him for being a good man, but chastises him for not being in the current thought of liberal philosphies.

Quindlen continues to get wrong. (She also exclaimed a few weeks ago, during the debate over Terri Shindler Shiavo, that there is no such thing as a culture of life.) These "Catholics" don't seem to want to conform to the teachings of the Catholic faith. We need to continue with the education of our faith, with men who are going to remain faithful to the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Keep those seminarians coming.

33 posted on 04/14/2005 4:29:11 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs a soldier)
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To: Northern Yankee; All
Don't worry: the younger generation is more conservative than the past.

I know whereof I speak: I am a part of that generation.

Actually, my sister goes to the Catholic University of America (in Washington DC) and she has said that the students are fully orthodox down there, and that many are contemplating the priesthood and the convent.

It's encouraging.
36 posted on 04/14/2005 6:02:14 AM PDT by tlRCta (St. Thomas More, Pray for Us! St. John Fisher, Pray for Us!)
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