Comments for Paths of Love http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog A Catholic blog on the vocation to love and holiness, on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and on diverse theological and philosophical questions. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by bill bannon http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-13477 bill bannon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:19:12 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-13477 I don't believe anonymous posters going intimate so as to refute others. Sorry. I find it trollish. I don't believe anonymous posters going intimate so as to refute others. Sorry. I find it trollish.

]]> Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by Anonymous http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-13466 Anonymous Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:25:15 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-13466 No. my point was that we commit mortal sins even when we were little (8 to 10 as you put it). I happened to have the providence that I was only out of the state of grace a few hours the first time. I post anonymously because who wants to admit they were a bully in third grade. No. my point was that we commit mortal sins even when we were little (8 to 10 as you put it). I happened to have the providence that I was only out of the state of grace a few hours the first time.

I post anonymously because who wants to admit they were a bully in third grade.

]]> Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by bill bannon http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-13453 bill bannon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:16:23 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-13453 If it "probably" was mortal sin and you never confessed it then you have never been in sanctifying grace because you should confess probable sins. Is that what you're saying? Or are you anonymous for another reason? If it "probably" was mortal sin and you never confessed it then you have never been in sanctifying grace because you should confess probable sins.
Is that what you're saying? Or are you anonymous for another reason?

]]> Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by Anonymous http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-13239 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-13239 I beat up a kid at school when I was 8. (I can't remember it too well but it probably was a mortal sin.) Oddly it was on the day I was set to have first confession. It's odd how such things happen some times. I beat up a kid at school when I was 8. (I can't remember it too well but it probably was a mortal sin.) Oddly it was on the day I was set to have first confession. It's odd how such things happen some times.

]]> Comment on Obama Administration Opposes Religious Freedom by Joseph Bolin http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/obama-administration-opposes-religious-freedom/#comment-12999 Joseph Bolin Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:27:19 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=1005#comment-12999 The issue is not whether using contraception is right or wrong. What is at issue is the fact that many people and organizations are opposed in conscience to contraception, and that Obama would attempt to force people to violate their conscience, a manifest attack on religious freedom, and a breaking of his promises to uphold such judgments of conscious in health care, and to support religious concerns and liberty. You speak of "lies, poverty, despair, and class-warfare". Aside from despair, which I'm not sure fundamentally altered much long-term one way or the other with Obama, these problems seem all to have increased with Obama: according to data of the U.S. Census Bureau, poverty has climbed since Obama took office (one may argue that this was due to economic changes for which he was unresponsible, but the question remains, is there any real evidence that his policies tend toward decreasing poverty?); Obama has deceived people on many major issues, including precisely his promise to support religious liberty in general and conscious protections in particular; his rhetoric and polemic tends to instigate class-warfare of rich against poor. The issue is not whether using contraception is right or wrong. What is at issue is the fact that many people and organizations are opposed in conscience to contraception, and that Obama would attempt to force people to violate their conscience, a manifest attack on religious freedom, and a breaking of his promises to uphold such judgments of conscious in health care, and to support religious concerns and liberty.

You speak of "lies, poverty, despair, and class-warfare". Aside from despair, which I'm not sure fundamentally altered much long-term one way or the other with Obama, these problems seem all to have increased with Obama: according to data of the U.S. Census Bureau, poverty has climbed since Obama took office (one may argue that this was due to economic changes for which he was unresponsible, but the question remains, is there any real evidence that his policies tend toward decreasing poverty?); Obama has deceived people on many major issues, including precisely his promise to support religious liberty in general and conscious protections in particular; his rhetoric and polemic tends to instigate class-warfare of rich against poor.

]]> Comment on Obama Administration Opposes Religious Freedom by Christine Hassenstab http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/obama-administration-opposes-religious-freedom/#comment-12977 Christine Hassenstab Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:44:34 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=1005#comment-12977 First, having the option of using contraception in an medical insurance policy is not the same as using it. Having said this, you must know that a super-majority of American Catholics use contraception and do not consider it evil but responsible. Second, if Obama were not to be re-elected, greater evil would be visited upon the American people than if a Republican were elected (sic). Richard McCormick SJ writes, "the rule of Christian reason, if we are governed by the ordo bonorum, is to choose the lesser evil. This general statement is, it would seem beyond debate; for the only alternative is that in conflict situations we should choose the greater evil, which is patently absurd." (Ambiguity in Moral Choice, p. 76) As an American Catholic, I would rather have the option of contraception in my health policy, to which non-Catholics are presumably members, than the lies, poverty, despair, and class-warfare that would continue to exist under a far-right Republican administration. First, having the option of using contraception in an medical insurance policy is not the same as using it. Having said this, you must know that a super-majority of American Catholics use contraception and do not consider it evil but responsible.
Second, if Obama were not to be re-elected, greater evil would be visited upon the American people than if a Republican were elected (sic). Richard McCormick SJ writes,
"the rule of Christian reason, if we are governed by the ordo bonorum, is to choose the lesser evil. This general statement is, it would seem beyond debate; for the only alternative is that in conflict situations we should choose the greater evil, which is patently absurd." (Ambiguity in Moral Choice, p. 76)
As an American Catholic, I would rather have the option of contraception in my health policy, to which non-Catholics are presumably members, than the lies, poverty, despair, and class-warfare that would continue to exist under a far-right Republican administration.

]]> Comment on Why not marrying may seem selfish by Joseph Bolin http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2008/09/why-not-marrying-may-seem-selfish/#comment-12818 Joseph Bolin Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:41:45 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog2/?p=8#comment-12818 That is exactly the question this post attempts to answer. It is an empirical fact that some people think that voluntarily remaining single is selfish. You're perfectly welcome to propose another account for why they might think so. That is exactly the question this post attempts to answer. It is an empirical fact that some people think that voluntarily remaining single is selfish. You're perfectly welcome to propose another account for why they might think so.

]]> Comment on Why not marrying may seem selfish by anonymous http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2008/09/why-not-marrying-may-seem-selfish/#comment-12816 anonymous Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:31:43 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog2/?p=8#comment-12816 Why in the world should it even be thought in any sense that being single is selfish? Being single isn't a crime you know. Why in the world should it even be thought in any sense that being single is selfish? Being single isn't a crime you know.

]]> Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by bill bannon http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-12421 bill bannon Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:49:41 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-12421 If you take 7 years old as the hypothetical age of reason for let's say 20% of baptized children in the last two thousand years ( the rest varying from 8 to 10 etc)....and then of that 20% take those who died at 8 or 9 or 10 years old from sickness or accident and who probably committed no mortal sin (which one can you imagine at 8 years).....then there alone are probably hundreds of thousands who never committed mortal sin. If you take 7 years old as the hypothetical age of reason for let's say 20% of baptized children in the last two thousand years ( the rest varying from 8 to 10 etc)….and then of that 20% take those who died at 8 or 9 or 10 years old from sickness or accident and who probably committed no mortal sin (which one can you imagine at 8 years)…..then there alone are probably hundreds of thousands who never committed mortal sin.

]]> Comment on Living Without Mortal Sin? by bill bannon http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2012/01/living-without-mortal-sin/#comment-12419 bill bannon Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:32:33 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/?p=978#comment-12419 I think your post, Joseph Bolin, is one of the best I've ever read on the Catholic internet. I would add to your litany of examples, Christ's praise of Nathanael in Jn.1:47..."Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite.* There is no duplicity in him.”. I doubt that Christ would say that within what He knew would be scripture if as God He knew that prior to death, Nathanael would sin mortally. I think your post, Joseph Bolin, is one of the best I've ever read on the Catholic internet. I would add to your litany of examples, Christ's praise of Nathanael in Jn.1:47…"Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite.* There is no duplicity in him.”. I doubt that Christ would say that within what He knew would be scripture if as God He knew that prior to death, Nathanael would sin mortally.

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