De Cura Animarum: Father Barron: on The Depressing Pew Forum Study

Friday, 15 October 2010

Father Barron: on The Depressing Pew Forum Study

This is a very interesting discussion that would be good to discuss the evangelisation opportunities we have as Catholic Christians. What makes Catholicism unique and distinctive? What is beautiful about the Catholic Church and its tradition? What are your thoughts? Please feel free to discuss his comments.

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Anonymous said...: Fr. Barron is outstanding and right on target. Thank you for posting this!

Jarrad Faulk; 21 October 2010 05:08

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"I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater... She departed the Church at the age of 15 and is a Big Intellectual. We went at eight and at one, I hadn't opened my mouth once, there being nothing for me in such company to say... Having me there was like having a dog present who had been trained to say a few words but overcome with inadequacy had forgotten them. Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable."

- Flannery O'Connor