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November 15, 2005

Catholic Carnival LV: Quotations, Part Deux

To start, I did track down the Catholic Carnival number and I believe this is accurate. There was one week with a discrepancy, but everything else adds up.

I did this theme once before (hence the “Part Deux”) and thought it worked well, so I’m bringing it back! Hope you enjoy:

Reconciling Science and Faith at Below the Beltway:

This is not entirely surprising, nor is it a radical development for Catholic theology. The Church has never been an adherent of the "literal truth of the Bible" philosophy that is prevalent in some Protestent sects. This is as true of the Book of Genesis as it is of the Book of Revelation, in both cases the Catholic Church rejects the fundamentalist interpretation of scripture for something that is, for lack of a better word, more nuanced.

Kate's 100% jargon-free explanation of the difference between NFP and other forms of birth control at Heart speaks to Heart is exactly as described:

NFP, in contrast, does none of these things. No barriers, no hormones, no foreign substances - in fact, NFP sex is exactly like sex-as-it-was-meant-to-be. Because it is sex-as-it-was-meant-to-be. Every day, we make choices to have sex with our spouse or not to. Once you are aware of the signs of fertility, that decision will inevitably take that information into account. Although we are prohibited from altering the sexual act, we are not ever commanded to have sex every time we are capable of it (whatever Monty Python would have you believe).

Welcome to My Soap Box at Happy Catholic talks about the homeless at a bad time of year for them. I chose a quote from St. John Vianney:

There are those who say to the poor that they seem to look to be in such good health: "You are so lazy! You could work. You are young. You have strong arms."

You don't know that it is God's pleasure for this poor person to go to you and ask for a handout. You show yourself as speaking against the will of God.

There are some who say: "Oh, how badly he uses it!" May he do whatever he wants with it! The poor will be judged on the use they have made of their alms, and you will be judged on the very alms that you could have given but haven't.

Read the rest – it might change your mind.

On Whose Authority at EmergentPDX struggled with authority much as I did during my conversion:

Christ knew the scriptures that would be inspired, written, bound, and passed on from generation to generation would only be one piece of God’s revelation. He knew the Church would need more than the one volume of stories and narrative to guide her through the millennia leading to the completion of His work. And so, Christ gave the keys to the kingdom to Peter. He gave Peter, as His duly appointed and anointed leader of the Church the authority to make decisions. He knew situations would come up the existing written code would not directly answer. We see this in Scripture, as the original apostles met to determine doctrine and discipline.

A Worthy Bride at HMS Blog takes a look at the parable of the talents:

Returning again to the Gospel reading, we, individually and together, must make our good use of God's gifts a priority, since we do not know when God will ask for an accouting of that use. Let us, then, hear anew God's call to use his gifts, of life, of freedom, of possessions, of a relationship with him, for his greater glory. Let us hear that call especially as it is urgently and forcefully repeated through the teaching of the Church in the contemporary world - of the Second Vatican Council, of our late Pope John Paul the Great, of Pope Benedict XVI. Let us work together to build for God a culture of life and love.

Proverbs 31:11, a Challenge to Husbands at Herb Ely takes the familiar passage and looks at it another way:

Proverbs 31:10-31 is the oft-quoted praise of the good wife. While we love to quote it, I wonder how many of us have reflected on this Prv31:11a ”The heart of her husband confideth in her,”. The NAB translation speaks of the husband “entrusting” his heart.

He even works in Spiderman . . .

Fr. Hanc at Kicking Over My Traces finds inspiration in a blogging newcomer:

I wish that Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP, of the blog Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! preached at our parish . . .No, I would love to hear Fr. Powell in action just because, having read a couple of his blog posts, I would bet that there are very few parishioners quietly snoozing through his homilies!

From Faith and Prejudice and Other Unpublished Sermons at Quenta Nârwenion is excellent, as always:

It was the opinion of numbers at that day that the promised Messiah or Christ, who was coming, would be a great temporal Prince, like Solomon, only greater; that he was to have an earthly court, earthly wealth, earthly palaces, lands and armies and servants and the glory of a temporal kingdom. This was their idea—they looked for a deliverer, but thought he would come like Gideon, David, or Judas Maccabaeus, with sword and spear and loud trumpet, inflicting wounds and shedding blood, and throwing his captives into dungeons.

And that’s just the start.

Worth Being Killed? at A Penitent Blogger makes a distinction necessary in our day:

St. Nicholas Tavelic likewise sought only to be faithful to God’s command, knowing it was nearly certain that he would be killed by a super-conformist society.

There is nothing worth killing oneself for.

But there are things worth being killed for.

Would you and I be willing to be killed for doing the right thing?

Go. Read. Now.

The Cheese Has Holes In It at Our Word and Welcome To It asks why business books miss the central facts of life:

But I don't think I need to reread this cheesy book [ed. Who Moved My Cheese?] to know that the central premise is a dangerous one: the idea that nobody is in control. Sure, as Christians we understand that the strength that lives in us comes from the reality that God, not us, is in charge. So there is a benefit to understanding that we can't control everything. But Cheese goes one step further, suggesting a nihilistic world in which an unseen hand maliciously manipulates our actions, moving the cheese around the maze like a deranged scientist experimenting on rats.

Veteran’s Day at Crusader of Justice posts a campus picture as well as some thoughts on Veteran’s Day:

Somehow, it was fitting that yesterday was also the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, a Bishop and monk who had a prior career as a soldier in the Roman army.

A Reflection on Virtue at Deo Omnis Gloria calls us back to basics:

Virtue, finding its origin in God, directs us back to God, to being and living as God wills. The life of virtue is our imitation of Christ.

Goes into the Catechism to see what the Church teaches – worth a minute of your time.

And this blog offers Must We Believe in Miracles? that asks an obvious question and provides an obvious answer. But why?

This seems like an odd question for this blog to answer, so to explain I’ll quickly relate my experiences over the last week. At our parish, those who intend to teach religion at home are required to attend basic Catechist classes beforehand (there are two of them). The first one was last week and, among other things, we learned . . .

You’ll have to go read the rest.

Hope you enjoyed.

God bless,
Jay

Posted by jay at November 15, 2005 7:43 AM

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