Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Archbishop Dolan at the USCCB meeting: “Love for Jesus and His Church is the passion of our lives!”
Here (thanks to Rocco) is the text of Arbp. Timothy Dolan's speech this weekend at the meeting of the USCCB. Wow.
I was at the meeting for the first session of the new Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, which I'm honored to be serving as a consultant. (Michael Gerson's column, here, touches on just a few of the reasons why the Administration's policies have made the work of this Committee particularly important.)
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/11/archbishop-dolan-at-the-usccb-meeting-.html
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Rick, thanks for this. It reminded me again of John Allen's column a little while back about religious liberty as the issue of the future.
By the way, here is a somewhat...different report on the same matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/us/bishops-renew-fight-on-abortion-and-gay-marriage.html?_r=2&hp
Marc
Posted by: Marc DeGirolami | Nov 15, 2011 9:13:30 AM
So sad . . . religious liberty gets scare quotes.
Posted by: Rick Garnett | Nov 15, 2011 11:36:27 AM
"So sad . . . religious liberty gets scare quotes."
No, just in the headline and the first paragraph. The other four times the words appear, they are not in quotes. The USCCB has formed the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. I think the quotation marks for the first two uses of the phrase may be interpreted to indicate that "religious liberty" are the exact words by which the bishops identify the issue. If quotes had been used around "religious liberty" all six times the phrase appeared, it would be different.
Posted by: David Nickol | Nov 15, 2011 11:57:11 AM
David, your explanation is not persuasive to me. They are used as scare quotes, and droped later, I suspect, only because it's awkward to keep using them. The fact that author reports, as if she is reporting a fact, that this is simply a matter of "recasting" is revealing.
Posted by: Rick Garnett | Nov 15, 2011 12:02:24 PM
Not to mention the bishops' regrettable "reordering of priorities," occurring sometime after the mid-1990s, in which abortion suddenly was selected as an important issue.
Posted by: Marc DeGirolami | Nov 15, 2011 12:11:59 PM
It is important to note that the purpose of Religious Liberty is not to encourage the worshipping of false idols, but rather to come to know The Living God.
Catholics recognize that our quest for The Living God begins with recognizing Jesus The Christ is The Son of The Living God, The Way, The Truth, and The Life of Love.
"If you know Me, you will know My Father also." - Jesus Christ
Posted by: Nancy D. | Nov 15, 2011 12:57:02 PM
Not to mention that it is a self-evident Truth as recognized by our Founding Fathers that our unalienable Right to Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness is endowed to us from God (with the capital G) not Caesar, or any other god, and our fundamental Right to Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness depends upon our protecting our Right to Life from the beginning.
Posted by: Nancy D. | Nov 15, 2011 1:26:38 PM
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