tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38479691.post1579016565585755937..comments2023-11-05T01:35:10.419-06:00Comments on The Travis Monitor: Catholics Mobilize In Austin against Obama Administration's Assault on Religious LibertyRandy Samuelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05422806680210032661noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38479691.post-58517383832215880182012-03-05T10:41:20.212-06:002012-03-05T10:41:20.212-06:00Quoting Marx, an atheist who deemed religion the o...Quoting Marx, an atheist who deemed religion the opiate of the masses, is hardly an appropriate source of attention-grabbing during the homily of a Catholic Mass, especially when no effort is made during the homily to either position the first quote or instruct the flock as to the anti-Catholic source of the quote. <br /><br />I can't recall the quote Fr. Adrian used exactly but I recall it being fairly gratuitous and out of place for the rest of the homily. It's hard for me to recall as I was so worked up that this priest would bring that evil name into our new church. You'd think that after spending $10 million of their hard-earned dollars to erect a beautiful new church to the glory of God that the people of St. John Neumann deserve better than to have Karl Marx thrown at them at 7:30 a.m. <br /><br />I would certainly hope that the meditations of saints and popes throughout history might provide Fr. Adrian and other priests much richer source material than the words -- any words -- of Karl Marx.Joe Gimenezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948890491595684543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38479691.post-33273516838831550232012-02-23T15:12:46.406-06:002012-02-23T15:12:46.406-06:00Perhaps by quoting Karl Marx, it is less an apprec...Perhaps by quoting Karl Marx, it is less an appreciation of Karl Marx but in the words of Sun Tzu "Know your enemy and know yourself?"<br /><br />or as bbmoe said "it just happened to dovetail with the point of his message."<br /><br />In the end, it is the message that matters. To study it and its relevence to what is going on or how it contributes to what needs to be done?<br /><br />Sometimes a controversial opening statement is needed to get people's attention to wake them up from apathy and indifference?<br /><br />It sounds like Fr. Adrian suceeded, as it inspired you to write?Ben_Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946776338520021079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38479691.post-43770768762070376072012-01-30T16:38:42.394-06:002012-01-30T16:38:42.394-06:00Joe, thanks for this post. I don't think you ...Joe, thanks for this post. I don't think you have to agree with the Catholic Church on contraception to hate what the Obama administration is doing to religious liberty. Thank goodness for the USCCB and the Beckett fund and all the other religious institutions that are joining the fight!<br /><br />I cut Fr. Adrian a lot of slack, not just because he's my priest. English is his 7th or 8th language and I'm sure he's really unaware of Karl Marx's oeuvre. He has more excuse than most for being somewhat naive, and in any case, he didn't use the Marx quote for any lefty purpose- it just happened to dovetail with the point of his message.<br /><br />That said, one of my great sources of irritation is the "useful idiot" quality of the politics of most Protestant (and a good portion of Catholic) clergy. Most of them are preternaturally anti-free market and almost none of them understand the moral hazard of outsourcing our charity to the government. It just drives me crazy that they see the plight of the poor and the downtrodden, but don't see the negative effects of welfare (and entitlements) on the human spirit and society generally.bbmoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18039303783620229633noreply@blogger.com