College Catholic Experiences Radical Feminist Neo-Paganism
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:22 PM
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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- Name: Pro Ecclesia
- Location: Ohio, United States
A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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3 Comments:
Look into the University of Dayton, it’s there as well. No doubt at Xavier too.
Thanks for helping getting the word out Jay! I would have boo'ed but...
1-Why galvanize the femminists in the room with the prescence of a male oppressor, the best way to fight radical femminists is to treat them like the 60's relics they are.
2-Would you really want a bunch of radical femminists in your face? Me either, I was more interesting in raiding the "refreshments table."
I'm not sure how any of that related to neo-paganism or does Gloria Steinham associate as being a neo-pagan?
Anyhow, I suggest in such cases, we ought to stand up and say something. Ask that question that would "expose her lies," because it's better to learn from eachother than to allow ignorance cause such frustrations that grow into hate and war. (Which is what I'm seeing with the additional responses in the comments section on that post.)
As a neo-pagan with a southern christian best-friend... all I can say is that life, love, and respect for each other grows/exists when we stop assuming so much and ask the simpliest questions to learn from eachother.
It's otherwise too easy to hate and ignore each other if all anyone does is complain and accuse the other.
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"It is easy to parody another religion, and neopaganism is a parodist’s delight. One can easily brand its ritual as primitive or just plain weird.
Yet serious apologetics requires that one exercise a hermeneutic of respect in the attempt to understand another faith.
St Paul obviously spent time with the Athenians, reading their poets and watching people at worship before daring to address them.
Only in this way can Christians begin to dialogue with pagans.
We need to put aside fifteen hundred years of offhanded dismissal and listen to pagans as having something intellectually serious and spiritually viable to say. This does not mean agreeing with them but having enough respect to listen and learn."
© By Andrew J McLean
This article was originally published in the Lutheran Theological Journal, 36/3, December 2002, pp. 112-125.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/313-neo-paganism-dialogue
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