Comments for The Gospel in the Digital Age http://blog.archny.org Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Pilgrims, immigrants, ancestors…Americans! by Pat Gillis http://blog.archny.org/index.php/pilgrim-immigrant-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-133299 Pat Gillis Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:15 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4191#comment-133299 With all due respect, I believe there are many devout, honest folks who have tried to come to America legally. Where is the leniency for them? This bill allows those who didn't play by the rules to 'win' while those who respected the law to be denied. As a Catholic, I do believe that we are all children of God. But so are the legal folks who are trying to enter this great country. I don't understand the Cardinal's support for this policy. With all due respect, I believe there are many devout, honest folks who have tried to come to America legally. Where is the leniency for them? This bill allows those who didn’t play by the rules to ‘win’ while those who respected the law to be denied.
As a Catholic, I do believe that we are all children of God. But so are the legal folks who are trying to enter this great country. I don’t understand the Cardinal’s support for this policy.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Dan http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-133000 Dan Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:21 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-133000 I would love for Cardinal Dolan and others to check out this wonderful blog post by a 20-something theology major from South Dakota. She and I share the same concern: it's not about gay rights so much as it is about the survival of The Church in this country... http://dannikanash.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/an-open-letter-to-the-church-from-my-generation/ I would love for Cardinal Dolan and others to check out this wonderful blog post by a 20-something theology major from South Dakota. She and I share the same concern: it’s not about gay rights so much as it is about the survival of
The Church in this country…

http://dannikanash.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/an-open-letter-to-the-church-from-my-generation/

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Julia Brandimarte http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132998 Julia Brandimarte Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:00 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132998 People seem to be confusing "love" and sexual acts. The Church does not say that homosexuals cannot love each other; the Church holds to teachings that homosexual acts are immoral, just as fornication, adultery, and murder are immoral because God through Sacred Scripture said it (Cf Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9-10; 1 Tim 1:10). The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the teachings of Chastity and Homosexuality. (CCC 2357-2359). Yes, Jesus told the woman caught in adultery that He didn't condemn her, but he also said to sin no more. (Jn 8:10-11) This is why we have the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Cardinal Dolan, please, as a shepherd of our souls, as a priest, reference the Sacred Scripture and the CCC in your posts. The Church is not a political entity or an administrative organization. She is our Mother Church, founded by Christ Himself, in charge of the eternal salvation of souls. People seem to be confusing “love” and sexual acts. The Church does not say that homosexuals cannot love each other; the Church holds to teachings that homosexual acts are immoral, just as fornication, adultery, and murder are immoral because God through Sacred Scripture said it (Cf Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9-10; 1 Tim 1:10). The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the teachings of Chastity and Homosexuality. (CCC 2357-2359). Yes, Jesus told the woman caught in adultery that He didn’t condemn her, but he also said to sin no more. (Jn 8:10-11) This is why we have the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Cardinal Dolan, please, as a shepherd of our souls, as a priest, reference the Sacred Scripture and the CCC in your posts. The Church is not a political entity or an administrative organization. She is our Mother Church, founded by Christ Himself, in charge of the eternal salvation of souls.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Chris http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132964 Chris Thu, 16 May 2013 01:39:59 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132964 Catholics need to know that there is a hell and a heaven. Being in this world should be all about Christ and not about themselves. It's all about how God came to this world and saved our souls by allowing himslf to be nailed to a Cross. homosexual sin is a heinous sin and you must confess to a real priest in order to get to heaven, you cannot get to heaven with mortal sin on your soul or you cannot get to heaven with original sin still on your soul. You must be baptized. people need to pray and ask God for the gift of faith and to Our Lady for strength to fight the temptations of sin from the devil. We are in are in the end times and the church's been infiltrated by Satan. The anti-christ will walk the earth three and a half years and much sin will be committed and many souls will go to hell if the one true God is not glorified here on earth. The Catholic mass has been destroyed by the modernists of vatican II. It's a scaryworld out there where twelve year old boys can drum up porno sites on there I-phones. May God be with you all in these satin infested times. Catholics need to know that there is a hell and a heaven. Being in this world should be all about Christ and not about themselves. It’s all about how God came to this world and saved our souls by allowing himslf to be nailed to a Cross. homosexual sin is a heinous sin and you must confess to a real priest in order to get to heaven, you cannot get to heaven with mortal sin on your soul or you cannot get to heaven with original sin still on your soul. You must be baptized. people need to pray and ask God for the gift of faith and to Our Lady for strength to fight the temptations of sin from the devil. We are in are in the end times and the church’s been infiltrated by Satan. The anti-christ will walk the earth three and a half years and much sin will be committed and many souls will go to hell if the one true God is not glorified here on earth. The Catholic mass has been destroyed by the modernists of vatican II. It’s a scaryworld out there where twelve year old boys can drum up porno sites on there I-phones. May God be with you all in these satin infested times.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Dan http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132494 Dan Thu, 09 May 2013 14:55:10 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132494 I am a 32yo gay catholic who is very active in the church. My father is a deacon, my mother is a director of music ministry. Thank goodness they have shown me more love & compassion than the Church. Here’s the bottom line: I appreciate that you welcome me. I appreciate that you accept me. But your compromise is that as a human being, I am not permitted to love who God designed me to love? God made me. Exactly as I am. Do you really believe that? Then dear Mother Church and it's leadership, stop allowing fear to rule your house. I believe God wants me to experience a human, loving relationship just like everyone else. It will strengthen me as a person, it will help comfort me in times of sorrow, and it will nurture my mind & heart to go out into the world to help form loving disciples who will also change the world, as I try to do. The enlightened world is waking up. So many young & old friends of mine have left the Church. They hear these teachings and realize it is not relevant to their lives. After 32 years of being told to wash my hands, I think it’s time for me to leave and go where I am truly accepted, as God designed me: Someone that I can be proud of and not made to feel shame or regret. You can dress it up as neatly as you want, but at the end of the day, the Church makes us feel dirty. Dear Mother Church, leadership and Cardinal Dolan: sometimes a parent needs to be checked on their behavior. Time to lead by example and wash your dirty hands first. I am made in God's image, and therefore am granted a full, human experience. The world is waking up. This is my "tough love" to you today. I am a 32yo gay catholic who is very active in the church. My father is a deacon, my mother is a director of music ministry. Thank goodness they have shown me more love & compassion than the Church.

Here’s the bottom line: I appreciate that you welcome me. I appreciate that you accept me. But your compromise is that as a human being, I am not permitted to love who God designed me to love?

God made me. Exactly as I am. Do you really believe that? Then dear Mother Church and it’s leadership, stop allowing fear to rule your house.

I believe God wants me to experience a human, loving relationship just like everyone else. It will strengthen me as a person, it will help comfort me in times of sorrow, and it will nurture my mind & heart to go out into the world to help form loving disciples who will also change the world, as I try to do.

The enlightened world is waking up. So many young & old friends of mine have left the Church. They hear these teachings and realize it is not relevant to their lives.

After 32 years of being told to wash my hands, I think it’s time for me to leave and go where I am truly accepted, as God designed me: Someone that I can be proud of and not made to feel shame or regret. You can dress it up as neatly as you want, but at the end of the day, the Church makes us feel dirty.

Dear Mother Church, leadership and Cardinal Dolan: sometimes a parent needs to be checked on their behavior. Time to lead by example and wash your dirty hands first. I am made in God’s image, and therefore am granted a full, human experience. The world is waking up. This is my “tough love” to you today.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by t. smith http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132421 t. smith Wed, 08 May 2013 19:05:28 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132421 With such love as this a more honest hatred would almost be preferred When advocating someone’s return to church remember the fable of the chicken and the pig where in being prepped for a breakfast of bacon and eggs, the trepidation of the pig was obviously greater since the chicken may have been involved but the pig was fully committed. Likewise the animus towards gay people in the teachings of the church are so extreme (to the point that the writings of Pope Benedict are cited extensively as extreme prejudice in the findings of fact in the Californian Prop 8 case in federal court) that it rises to the level of assault on their personhood. May their friends and families advocate for them in loyal opposition but for the sake of their souls, let alone their self respect I would not expect them to embrace such a hollow welcome of willful ignorance. Self sacrifice may be noble but at some point it’s just masochism. With such love as this a more honest hatred would almost be preferred When advocating someone’s return to church remember the fable of the chicken and the pig where in being prepped for a breakfast of bacon and eggs, the trepidation of the pig was obviously greater since the chicken may have been involved but the pig was fully committed. Likewise the animus towards gay people in the teachings of the church are so extreme (to the point that the writings of Pope Benedict are cited extensively as extreme prejudice in the findings of fact in the Californian Prop 8 case in federal court) that it rises to the level of assault on their personhood.
May their friends and families advocate for them in loyal opposition but for the sake of their souls, let alone their self respect I would not expect them to embrace such a hollow welcome of willful ignorance. Self sacrifice may be noble but at some point it’s just masochism.

]]> Comment on William Wilberforce Award by Irene http://blog.archny.org/index.php/william-wilberforce-award/comment-page-1/#comment-132405 Irene Wed, 08 May 2013 09:58:26 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4157#comment-132405 Those rumors about the Girls Scouts (generated by Glenn Beck's Blaze and some ultra-right traditionalists) have been repeatedly denied and repudiated by the Girl Scouts. The Scouts have a strong partnership with the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministries (and not PP). My own daughter is now working on the Marian Medal, the religious award for Catholic Girl Scouts; hopefully she'll complete it in time for next year's Scout Mass at the Cathedral. It's so wonderful that Ms Chaves received the Elizabeth Seton Award; her work is very much in the footsteps on Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity; teaching girls to become "women of courage, confidence and character". Those rumors about the Girls Scouts (generated by Glenn Beck’s Blaze and some ultra-right traditionalists) have been repeatedly denied and repudiated by the Girl Scouts. The Scouts have a strong partnership with the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministries (and not PP).

My own daughter is now working on the Marian Medal, the religious award for Catholic Girl Scouts; hopefully she’ll complete it in time for next year’s Scout Mass at the Cathedral.

It’s so wonderful that Ms Chaves received the Elizabeth Seton Award; her work is very much in the footsteps on Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity; teaching girls to become “women of courage, confidence and character”.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Linney http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132292 Linney Mon, 06 May 2013 22:49:32 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132292 This is absolutely beautiful. I almost cried. There are times where I am utterly disappointed in this church. This is certainly not one of them. All are indeed loved and welcome here. This is absolutely beautiful. I almost cried. There are times where I am utterly disappointed in this church. This is certainly not one of them. All are indeed loved and welcome here.

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Carolyn Minchin http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132291 Carolyn Minchin Mon, 06 May 2013 22:38:18 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132291 sorry for the typo; Jesus is calling people to the sacraments, the church must not stand in their way sorry for the typo; Jesus is calling people to the sacraments, the church must not stand in their way

]]> Comment on All Are Welcome! by Carolyn Minchin http://blog.archny.org/index.php/all-are-welcome/comment-page-1/#comment-132289 Carolyn Minchin Mon, 06 May 2013 22:30:36 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/?p=4148#comment-132289 I am experiencing the sacrament of confession as an act of self harm, I am told a view of human sexuality that is not congruent with contemporary science. I believe that Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body is a beautiful document that has the potential to help us to create a good understanding of human sexuality. However, this has to be done in dialogue with science. Please, there was a moment in history when we has to understand that the earth revolves around the sun. This is that moment for us in understanding human sexuality, we are created in diversity. We approach the sacraments in equality. I am experiencing the sacrament of confession as an act of self harm, I am told a view of human sexuality that is not congruent with contemporary science. I believe that Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is a beautiful document that has the potential to help us to create a good understanding of human sexuality. However, this has to be done in dialogue with science. Please, there was a moment in history when we has to understand that the earth revolves around the sun. This is that moment for us in understanding human sexuality, we are created in diversity. We approach the sacraments in equality.

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