Comments on: Protecting our Pro-Life Brand http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ed Mechmann http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-51494 Ed Mechmann Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:10:40 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-51494 Those are always the answer. Matthew 6:33. Those are always the answer. Matthew 6:33.

]]> By: James De Silva http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-51236 James De Silva Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:38:40 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-51236 Institutional failures (whether the Church, in politics, or the courts) are clearly hard to stomach but perhaps it keeps us distracted from our apostolic mission, by thinking that the answer lies elsewhere. Perhaps the answer is from the botton up not the top down? Somehow, I think there is a difference between being pro-life vs. being anti-abortion. I wonder if personal sanctity and immersion in the sacraments is the true answer. Institutional failures (whether the Church, in politics, or the courts) are clearly hard to stomach but perhaps it keeps us distracted from our apostolic mission, by thinking that the answer lies elsewhere. Perhaps the answer is from the botton up not the top down?

Somehow, I think there is a difference between being pro-life vs. being anti-abortion.

I wonder if personal sanctity and immersion in the sacraments is the true answer.

]]> By: Ed Mechmann http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-49249 Ed Mechmann Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:06:01 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-49249 The notion of "branding" is a term of art from the communications/marketing world, and refers to maintaining the integrity and purity of one's message. It is vitally important to any movement or organization involved in transmitting any kind of message. The battle faced by the pro-life movement will go on past November 6, regardless of who is elected. How we communicate the pro-life message cannot be bound down with the needs and vagaries of the electoral process. It's much more important than that. The notion of “branding” is a term of art from the communications/marketing world, and refers to maintaining the integrity and purity of one’s message. It is vitally important to any movement or organization involved in transmitting any kind of message.

The battle faced by the pro-life movement will go on past November 6, regardless of who is elected. How we communicate the pro-life message cannot be bound down with the needs and vagaries of the electoral process. It’s much more important than that.

]]> By: MaryGr http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-49161 MaryGr Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:55:57 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-49161 Characterizing pro-life with "branding" gives intellectual buoyancy to dead (deadly) weight. On Nov. 6, to bite or not to bite that is the question. Catholics will choose whether to take another big bite out of the serpent's apple or let it fall from the tree as food for the worms. One candidate has no pro-life garments in his closet and is exquisitely proud of it; the other guy wears a stained and torn garment and treads carefully in his boasts. Branding. Shmanding. You want more of the apple or not? Characterizing pro-life with “branding” gives intellectual buoyancy to dead (deadly) weight. On Nov. 6, to bite or not to bite that is the question. Catholics will choose whether to take another big bite out of the serpent’s apple or let it fall from the tree as food for the worms. One candidate has no pro-life garments in his closet and is exquisitely proud of it; the other guy wears a stained and torn garment and treads carefully in his boasts. Branding. Shmanding. You want more of the apple or not?

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-48683 Thomas Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:28:48 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-48683 Clearly you are still upset that the "peasant" Catholics dared to disagree with the Cardinal's scandalous decision to honor the most pro abortion president this country has ever known. Good. For the last 50 years we have had to endure chaose in the Church because of people like you who have a problem with the teachings of the Church but you refuse to leave. But the good news is that liberal disobedient orders of nuns and priests have no vocations and will soon be extinct. But the evil they caused will linger for a while. And the children of liberal Catholics have no love for the faith and could care less, so hopefully when the liberal elites in the Church are finally gone the Church can rid herself of the disobedience, choas, extrememe liturgical abuse, and sexual depravity which has been tolorated and encouraged for the last 50 years. Clearly you are still upset that the “peasant” Catholics dared to disagree with the Cardinal’s scandalous decision to honor the most pro abortion president this country has ever known. Good. For the last 50 years we have had to endure chaose in the Church because of people like you who have a problem with the teachings of the Church but you refuse to leave. But the good news is that liberal disobedient orders of nuns and priests have no vocations and will soon be extinct. But the evil they caused will linger for a while. And the children of liberal Catholics have no love for the faith and could care less, so hopefully when the liberal elites in the Church are finally gone the Church can rid herself of the disobedience, choas, extrememe liturgical abuse, and sexual depravity which has been tolorated and encouraged for the last 50 years.

]]> By: Christina http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546&cpage=1#comment-47985 Christina Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:04:10 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2546#comment-47985 Great post! Great post!

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