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the real problem in america	libby	Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Question: ive thought alot about this and our biggest problem is celebrities and pro athelites. these people have wealth and power they squander it. they gt caught dealing and abuseing drugs, beating and rapeing women and in some cases young girls, drunk driveing and every other crime and perversion under the sun. stuff that would get the rest of placed under the jail. they get rehab at a country club or just say im sorry and all is well. all of them at the same time claim to speak for the rest of us they know whats best poor farmer or the unmarried mother who has to turn to prostitution to survive. these people havent qualified as one of us in decades, they know nothing outside thier beverly hills mansion and planned communities. yet they seduce the young why and how is the american church to combat this threat.
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM Dear Libby: Well, I do not think that celebrities and pro athletes are the biggest problem. They are but a symptom of a culture war with a broken moral compass. The Church combats this culture war by sticking-to-its-guns on moral issues. Frankly, the Catholic Church is the only faith group that has stood strong against the whims of fad and cultural changes in moral ideas. We, as members of the Church, and all Christians of any faith group, need to stand firm in our faith and in our moral integrity despite all the pressures from family, friends, co-workers, and society to do otherwise. The combat is to BE Christian. To accept that as Christians we are to be counter-cultural and to stand up for Christ and His Church and the moral virtue our faith teaches regardless of the pressures to do otherwise. We also need to pray for those people and for all people and for our society. We all need God. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below: Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum. Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum

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the real problem in america

libby

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Question:

ive thought alot about this and our biggest problem is celebrities and pro athelites. these people have wealth and power they squander it. they gt caught dealing and abuseing drugs, beating and rapeing women and in some cases young girls, drunk driveing and every other crime and perversion under the sun. stuff that would get the rest of placed under the jail. they get rehab at a country club or just say im sorry and all is well. all of them at the same time claim to speak for the rest of us they know whats best poor farmer or the unmarried mother who has to turn to prostitution to survive. these people havent qualified as one of us in decades, they know nothing outside thier beverly hills mansion and planned communities. yet they seduce the young why and how is the american church to combat this threat.

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM

Dear Libby:

Well, I do not think that celebrities and pro athletes are the biggest problem. They are but a symptom of a culture war with a broken moral compass.

The Church combats this culture war by sticking-to-its-guns on moral issues. Frankly, the Catholic Church is the only faith group that has stood strong against the whims of fad and cultural changes in moral ideas.

We, as members of the Church, and all Christians of any faith group, need to stand firm in our faith and in our moral integrity despite all the pressures from family, friends, co-workers, and society to do otherwise.

The combat is to BE Christian. To accept that as Christians we are to be counter-cultural and to stand up for Christ and His Church and the moral virtue our faith teaches regardless of the pressures to do otherwise.

We also need to pray for those people and for all people and for our society. We all need God.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below:
Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum.
Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum
Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum
Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum
Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum