Comments on: Why Prophets Get Stoned

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:37:01 +0000

As my Mormon buddy said " were here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"

Rolland

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:46:01 +0000

Therese,

thanks for your beautiful witness to the truth, and the great reminder that we lay people are also called to be God's spokesmen as well. We need to rejoice when we are persecuted, for this is exactly what Christ said would happen.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:38:01 +0000

I would like to thank you for your insight. I teach science and health at a Catholic High School. (I am a certified teacher as well as an RN with 30 years experience in maternal-child health.) It has been an uphill battle to teach the politically incorrect, yet factually correct truths about the "safe sex" delusion. Your comment about loving the students enough to tell them the truth and society's tendency to shoot the messenger of an unpopular message has been part of my presentation for several years now. I would like to share with all of you how positively the message of abstinence has been received by the students. Overwhelmingly, in the course evaluations, the students thank me for telling them the truth – and for giving them the tools needed to do what's right – and HEALTHY. The "battle" I mentioned earlier is with the other teachers – not the students.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:41:01 +0000

lwall — your comments are so true but I respectfully disagree with you on one point; the head of our Church (John Paul II and Benedict XVI) has not been silent but has spoken out numerous times on the evils that attack our faith. I will agree with you wholeheartedly that the message needs to be reinforced frequently among our bishops and priests. Thanks for the article Dr. D'Ambrosio – this is a message we all need to hear. May God continue to bless you and your work!

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:14:01 +0000

So true! But the prophetic voice is virtually absent from the Catholic Church! And we should be the loudest voice of all just because the Church is Truth. Why is this? Teaching philosophy to undergrads, I am perennially appalled by most students's a priori rejection of truth. Also as one who has thoroughly studided the philosophical roots of the rejection of truth from the Sophists, Enlightenment, Nietzsche, Derrida, and current postmodernists I am familiar with the arguments and particularly the deficiencies of the arguments. The modern currents of relativism and postmodernism are products of such thinking that has crept not only into the hearts and minds of students, but also into that of Catholic Christians, lay and priest alike. The prophetic voice is an urgent voice that calls back to absolute truth. Thus, no firm convincing argument and defense of the Absolute Truth of Christ and Church among believers as absolute and universal, then no prophetic voice proclaiming Truth amidst this stormy sea of "many truths, my truth and your truth, all is good, tolerance at all costs, my Jesus and your Jesus, etc." Conclusion: the world urgently needs the prophetic voice but that voice will not emerge until those in the Chuech, especially the priests, become convinced of Christ and Church as Absolute.