tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post5913024149430055761..comments2023-06-20T07:19:44.412-04:00Comments on The Four Mass'keteers: Well, at least there's no patriarchy here . . .David Nybakkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-26684582755737054672007-08-13T12:09:00.000-04:002007-08-13T12:09:00.000-04:00Going off on the crisis of indifference I think th...Going off on the crisis of indifference I think that there has been a tremenduous lack of content in our understanding of God and self. I love the simply way the Baltimore Catachism spelled things out: 6. Q. Why did God make you?<BR/>A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.David Nybakkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-88875310672602800592007-08-12T09:25:00.000-04:002007-08-12T09:25:00.000-04:00Hanscom's surmises ring true with my teaching in a...Hanscom's surmises ring true with my teaching in a Catholic setting too. The dilemma seems not to be with the indicative, the "is-ness" of the situation, but with the imperative. What's to be done?<BR/><BR/>Is saying, "Stay married, be faithful to your marriage vows, give responsible limits for acceptable behavior in your children," sufficient? Apparently not. <BR/><BR/>The howls from the progressives (so-called) when Paul VI published <A HREF="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html" REL="nofollow">Humanae Vitae</A> still echo regarding the Church teaching about birth control. And what isn't scoffed at by too many Catholic married couples is quietly ignored and unspoken about rather than faithfully practiced.<BR/><BR/>The nuptial crisis is, IMO, a crisis of indifference, not thematized rejection or rebellion. A whimper not a bang.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com