Wie Aristoteles bemerkt, die Menschen nicht für den Staat zu existieren, sondern der Staat existiert für die Menschen. Der Staat sollte alles tun, zu fördern und zu unterstützen natürlichen Familie für das Gemeinwohl. Bischof Küng richtig ist.

Indeed, love the person, but hate the false and erroneous religious ideologies and doctrines. However, there is a unity of value and virtues. One can not love without being courageous, wise, temperate, and just. A pacifist seperates love from the other virtues, which becomes a psuedo-love, one that is cowardly, unwise, intemperate and unjust. It is a passivity that allows evil to triumph over good.

Uncle Joe, I was thinking more of burying him at an East Texas hog farm or Wisconsin bacon factory?

But, I agree, one problem with Christians in general and Catholics in particular since VII, has been the failure to understand that we have enemies, both secular and Islamists, and Our Lord did not command us to be wimpy welcome mats. The crusading orders of knights knew this well and responded in just cause.

Its simple, just ignore all the modernism in the Church, and focus on practicing the traditional faith! Its the traditional faith that inspires, and sustains the soul. Liberalism and modernism in the Church is boring, bland and superficial.

Catholic Charismatics are well meaning, and often theologically orthodox, but liturgically the movement is a disaster.

Funny how they never mock Islam or Mohammed? Is it because they know very full and well that a Christian will not return hate for hate, but with charity?

Awesome, and beautiful!

@Ehrmann- Ich habe noch nie die Monstrosität in Wien, das Sie verwiesen wurde. Aber ich will nicht krank werden, damit ich ablegen wird. Ich denke, wie Schönheit, die hässliche hat auch ein Kontinuum, und wir sehen dies entsprechend Dantes Inferno mit seiner hierarchischen Kreisen der höllischen Böse ... und Hässlichkeit. Als ich zuerst nach Regensburg Bayern in den 1980er Jahren war ich Agnostiker. Eines Tages beschloss ich, in den Dom St. Peter in Regensburg, die im Mittelalter gebaut … [More]

This Modern art in the church is banal, trivial, deformed in principle, and boring. In a word ugly! It flows from erroneous modern theology and philosophy. They should look for artists with real talent and inspired by a solid Catholic faith to fill any new churches to be built, or if that isn't possible, then make facsimiles of past great works, such as Michelangelo or Rafael. This eye-disease is not art, nor will it convert anyone or lift the heart and mind to God because only glorifies man.
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I agree Dr. Bobus. And, this is disturbing in that it is showing that St. John’s Catholic University is capitulating to the god of multiculturalism and relativism.

I'm afraid the GIRM has it backward, the norm for the Latin rite is and always has been from tradition to kneel. Many of the so called liturgical experts, who tinkered with the Novus Ordo based their theories upon sketchy historical data, that if there were a few exceptions in the second and third century of people standing, it was an exception and not universal. What was universal was kneeling before Christ, Our Lord, Our King- the God of all creation who is due honor, respect, and reverence.

There are three groups within the Church that present themselves in there actions and writings. And, its no secret to which group gained ascendency in the Church following the Second Vatican Council. First, there are the progressives who are both theologically liberal (dogma and doctrine can evolve) and socially liberal (liturgical and parish life ought to reflect the evolution and progress of dogma). Second, there are the so called conservatives who are theologically conservative (dogma cannot … [More]

The Church indeed has the fullness of Truth, because Christ is the Logos Incarnate. However, while Catholic tradition has always held that Truth does not exist outside of Her, Truth is recognized by others outside of the Church. So, if something is true, it is universal- Catholic; and a Buddhist, or Hindu can know it and try to conform their life to it. The Logos may even be articulated in the writings of another religion, but in these non-Catholic religions the Truth is disconnected and at … [More]

Fr. Arrupe was a liberation theologian, whose theology was condemned by the CDF when it was under Cardinal Ratzinger at that time. He may have submitted to Pope JPII in the end upon his (Fr. Arrupe's) retirement, but he never bent his knee to Catholic Tradition and orthodox social teaching. His view of the kingdom of heaven was solely immanentistic and terrestrial.

He looks a bit more Confusion than Buddhistic, but never the less, a real mantra maker of new-age gobbly-gook syncretic superficial religion.

Lukedaniel, you're right! And, the guy standing next to her in the suit is probably a Jesuit from National Catholic Reporter.

Be prepared for the call to ban all umbrellas as dangerous assault weapons. Umbrella makers have been advised to move out of state. Those on campus who were emotionallly hurt at the sight of the umbrellas will form a task force to testify in Washington before congress. The psychiatric community is on stand by for counceling the victims.

Pardon the pun, but she certainly has a bad habit.

She couldn't handle the truth, and maintain the lie of radical feminism that abortion helps women. She could no longer sanitize the reality of the brutality of ripping children limb from limb- by calling it choice.

I think that the openly gay lector, Cupoli has a "real disconnect" between his lifestyle and the unchanging Apostolic teachings of the Church.

I don't think he (the Pope) could do anything even if he wanted to. Yes, technically he's the Pope, but Pope Paul VI democraticised the Church's ecclesial structure with each Bishop having his own say in the matters of his own diocese, and while the bishops don't have complete autonomy under the post-VII environment- they do have a lot of latitude to the point of inanity. It seems that no modern churchman will go against the democratic spirit of his fellow brother bishops, unless it’s against … [More]

Uncle Joe,
The distinction between the essence of the triangle- and the good- and black jack- and the game of life is the key to seeing why voluntarism- saying that what is good or evil is based upon God's will, is false, and essentialism- that good and evil are based upon the Logos, is true.
One must distinguish between an essence that gives itself as an intrinsic absolute necessity, and an essence that gives itself as non-necessary. Necessary absolute essences are eternal and unchanging; non … [More]

That's a good question Uncle Joe. If the bomber acquiesces to the nature of God as Absolute, which as St. Anselm argued, is so by necessity, otherwise He wouldn't be the Absolute- the highest thing in all reality must necessarily be Absolute. I would then ask our bomber if, God could make a triangle with four sides or a circle with two sides, or a 7 sided cube. Can he make a rock too heavy for himself to lift? He might say, God can do anything? Can he lie, or do evil? Yes, he might reply. Well, … [More]

I wonder if the perpetrators are either German theologians who are doing research on the application of Social Theory or effeminate seminarians with German theology professors.

@Uncle Joe. I think Socrates, along with St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas would have said to the suicide bomber, that the essence of a supreme transcendent infinite Absolute Being- God, is the absolute of all perfections, goodness, beauty, truth, logic and love. These properties of the Logos are reflected in all of the created cosmos and both in quantitative and qualitative reality. Thus, if one says that I just got a message from God to lie, steal, and cheat on my spouse- or to carry out … [More]

I would add to this discussion, along with the honest and politically incorrect explication from Uncle Joe (I mean that as a compliment!), that Islam is theologically voluntaristic, while Christianity is essentialist. This was also debated by Socrates and Euthyphro on the nature of the essence of piety. Voluntarism says that what makes something right, true and good, is solely based upon the will of God. Essentialists posits that virtue, goodness and truth have within them necessary and … [More]

Thanks Uncle Joe for making the VII’s CCC ambiguous wording on this topic more clear.

The kid, initially gave a natural response from the given of reality. A marriage is between "a husband and wife". The mother begins her deconstructed mind control on the little girl, by saying what if a girl wants to marry a girl, and so, on. A little thinking demonstrates that the conceptualization of husband and wife are properties of male, and female, much the same as son and daughter. Thus, a woman cannot both be a husband and wife, and neither can a man be both also.

Something, I have difficulty in understanding, and at times find troubling.
The new Catechism says that "Islam is in the plan of salvation." How is that? St. Thomas Aquinas taught that Islam is a Christian heresy. How can a heretical sect be in the plan of salvation? Islam teaches that Jesus was not divine; Catholicism teaches that he is identical with God. Through logic, the law of non-contradiction- they both can't be right. Perhaps, there "may be" some Muslims on a personal individual level … [More]