theophiles.org - Dear Congressman Kennedy

Written by holmegm

Monday, 16 November 2009 15:29

From The RI Catholic:

For the moment I’d like to set aside the discussion of health care reform, as important and relevant as it is, and focus on one statement contained in your letter of October 29, 2009, in which you write, “The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” That sentence certainly caught my attention and deserves a public response, lest it go unchallenged and lead others to believe it’s true. And it raises an important question: What does it mean to be a Catholic?

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holmegm

|2009-11-16 15:33:40

Classifications ...

We usually put "opinion" in Journals. But ...

This is clearly newsworthy, yet I don't know that any "hard news" story has sufficient text from this letter. So I compromised by putting it in Page 2.

It's politics, yet it's Catholicism, yet ...

Hey, I did my best ;)

patronpeter - if i don't know about it, it's news

|2009-11-19 09:31:56

Unfortunately for Kennedy, and many other catholic’s, there seems to be this mindset that once you're sprinkled with that magic water, you can do/say whatever you like, and then pray like heck on your deathbed. As an outsider (not catholic), I can see why someone who follows their faith as best they can would be disturbed by the senators comment. If part of being catholic is living by the book and the wishes of the upper management, then no, Kennedy is not being a good catholic. I should also point out his use of the words "less of a catholic". What does it mean to be "less of" in practice? Religion is not a math equation, it is what it is. That being said, I don't think there's a gray line called "less of" when you commit to a certain lifestyle (being catholic). You either are or you aren’t. People are flawed, we sin, its part of our having free will and abusing it. Let's not down play it by picking and choosing what we like in a denomination. Kennedy should own up to his flaws, and make a better attempt to understand the hierarchy he is disagreement with. :)

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