Comments on: The View from Under the Bus

By: James De Silva

James De Silva — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:47:15 +0000

I was reading somewhere (a Knights of Columbus pamphlet on relativism and truth) that today truth belongs to the sphere of philosophy, while tolerance belongs to the sphere of politics. Tolerance has been absolutized, while truth has been relativized. That might explain the difficulty in the political sphere. While I personally think the answer is from the bottom up, truth does belong in the public square, and pro life voices need to be heard in the political sphere.

By: Ed Mechmann

Ed Mechmann — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:34:28 +0000

Certainly cultural — change hearts, one by one, and you change culture.

By: James De Silva

James De Silva — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:18:56 +0000

If one were to invite Michael Benjamin to meet a mother vulnerable to abortion at a South Bronx housing project – is that political or cultural?

By: Ed Mechmann

Ed Mechmann — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:07:47 +0000

Mostly it's from the GOP "establishment" and punditocracy. But I also see it from some pro-lifers. One example is this article from Catholic Culture.

By: DottyDay

DottyDay — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:32:35 +0000

I wonder if you could expand a little on just who exactly are the pro-lifers that are suggesting that it is throw-in-towel-time. Is this the what I’ll call the “pro-life establishment” or the political elite or pastors or the higher hierarchy? activists? lawyers? parents? students? I’m really surprised that you are hearing enough defeatism that you felt the need to write about it.

By: Tom Reynolds

Tom Reynolds — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:31:29 +0000

Ed, solid post.

The culture of death is gaining ground …. Yet the darkness “has not overcome” (Jn 1:5) the Light of the World …nor can it.

Let us go within and make room for this Light … and then — without fear — let Him shine!
The darkness will attack it, but will never prevail. This is our only hope.