<<< Forget about the debate as to the reality of Hell. One thing for certain, compromise after compromise always leads to a living hell of some sort. Take it to the bank.
Has
Georgetown University finally gone too far? I can tell you one
thing -- it no more represents the Catholic faith than do
Congressional Catholics such as Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Chuckie
Schumer, John Kerry . . . . or, Kathleen Sebelius.
The campus
invited HHS Secretary Sebelius as a guest speaker, a woman who would
gladly abort a surviving “fetus” in a heartbeat, in spite of her faux religious
stance as a Catholic. Understand that American Catholics, especially the Boomer Generation, actually believe they can bring pressure to bear on their Catholic Church and effect doctrinal change. Before this is all over, these 1960's hippie punks who have honored everything from free love and drugs to Woodstock will learn that they are no longer welcomed in the Catholic Church if they continue to believe their Pope can and should be ordered about by an existential secularist who knows nothing of the import of "God" and a life of solidarity with one's faith.
If the Catholic Church allows this travesty (Sebelius at Georgetown, yesterday) to go unpunished or unnoticed, it faces the lose of all respect from those who care about matters of faith. This WaPost article [below] may be the first bit of news concerning the growing rebellion against those who believe that "faith" is less important than the dictates of a no-nothing mystic parading about as one who knows best for all.
By Daniel Burke| Religion News Service, Published: May 18
The author who turned Georgetown
University into a horror scene in “The Exorcist” plans to sue the school in
church court, charging that his alma mater has strayed so far from church
doctrine that it should no longer call itself Catholic.
Blatty, 85, credits a
Georgetown scholarship with fostering his writing career, which includes an
Academy Award for “The Exorcist,” a blockbuster based on his best-selling 1971
novel. In the book and movie, a Jesuit priest at Georgetown, the nation’s
oldest Catholic university, struggles to save a demon-possessed girl. Now
retired, Blatty lives in Bethesda, Md.
“What I owe
Georgetown, however, is nothing as compared to what Georgetown owes to its
founders and the Christ of faith,” Blatty said in a statement.
The author says that
Georgetown has violated church teaching for decades by inviting speakers who
support abortion rights and refusing to obey instructions the late Pope John
Paul II issued in 1990 to church-affiliated colleges and universities.
Georgetown should
amend its ways or stop calling itself a Catholic or Jesuit institution, Blatty
said. . . . . . . you can finish this article if you prefer, It is a story written by the Washington Post as it celebrates - no doubt - "trouble in paradise" with regard to the Catholic Church.
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