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Sunday, August 28, 2011

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Elizabeth D

This morning's homily included an extended, fiery denunciation of Youcat (which evidently was not written to please this priest either). Fr says he called up the publisher and warned without mincing words what would happen to them in the afterlife if they don't repent (he didn't mention if he applied this also to the Holy Father. I put my head down on the pew in front of me for the duration of his comments on this subject). He also asserted an ongoing need for Russia to be consecrated to Our Lady. Finally, that students at the local university dress like hookers (some, yes, sadly) and the university should be burned to the ground like Sodom and Gomorrah (What if there are 10 righteous students?). Fr says he doesn't like having to talk like this, but as a priest he's obliged to!

I host Ignatius book fairs at the university parish and I plan to sell Youcat at the next one. And, for that matter, "Fatima For Today". If you don't have a book about dressing modestly, think about it!

Nancy D.

Where is the Wisdom in these words, "The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins..." in response to the question, "Why is the production and consumption of pornography a sin against charity", which can be found on page 224 of the YOUCAT.

Nancy D.

The Holy Father knows there Is no wisdom to be found in the statement, "The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins..." which is why I do not believe that The Holy Father approved of the final edition of the YOUCAT, to begin with.

Elizabeth D

As an update about this anti-Youcat homily, I notified the rector of the church where this occurred and he was unhappy to hear that and I think he is looking into it.

John Herreid

The quote Nancy is referring very selectively to is a sidebar quote in YOUCAT. Here's the full quote:

"If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins … For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither." — C.S. Lewis

It is a quote from Lewis's work, Mere Christianity.

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