The HHS Mandate: Anti-Catholic and Un-American, Fr. Barron comments
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Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit www.wordonfire.org
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@TogetherForPeace The Progressives are cafeteria Catholics. Not really Catholic at all.
@TogetherForPeace Note, I am not attacking Protestantism, I am just saying that the problem of liberalism is a problem for ALL Christians. I would say two things uniquely critical of Protestantism, though: 1) Protestantism is inherently liberal because it is founded on the notion of private judgment, and that inevitably leads to relativism, the bread and butter of liberalism 2) since there is this problem of relativism, there is no way w/in Protestantism to principally decide what IS orthodoxy
Once again, this discussion really has little to do with contraception etc ( that’s a different discussion). It has to do with the rights of religous institutions.
@TogetherForPeace …(continued) and so, the liberal dissenters in the Church simply do not teach them to the faithful. For example, I am 22 years-old, and I was not aware that the Catholic Church claims she is the Church founded by Christ until I was 20 years-old. This kind of ignorance is very, very widespread among Catholics. With that in mind, how can Catholics obey an authority that they do not even know exists, much less know WHY it is authoritative! What do you think?
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@TogetherForPeace …(continued) Even the more fundamentalist Protestant sects are, ultimately, liberal. How many of them hold fast to the historic and orthodox moral and doctrinal teachings of Christianity? Virtually all of them contracept, cohabitate, masturbate, have premarital sex, divorce, etc. AND hold to doctrines that are historically innovative. Of course, not that Catholics are much better. The Church is irreformable on all of these teachings…(continued)
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@TogetherForPeace The “disconnect” has been in the making for quite some time. Traditionalists – many of them, anyway – point their fingers at the Second Vatican Council, but the seeds of the “disconnect” were sown much, much earlier with liberal developments in theology that influenced generations of Christian thinkers. Protestantism is by no means free of this, either – one need only take a look at the liberalism of most mainstream sects…
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@TogetherForPeace Birth control is just wrong!!! Don’t you know that? You should vote for Rick Santorum, who is the only candidate who is speaking up for this. Fr. Barron is a gem. Who else on all of YouTube speaks as well as he does. All of those pansy liberal Catholics ought to just…..well, leave….so that the holy Catholic Church belongs to just us true believers. Thank you, Fr. Barron. You are a true believer!!!
Catholicism in America seems to be split. There’s the ‘progressive’ side which appears to have no problem with birth control and is more than willing to announce to the world that they use it despite the Church’s objection to it…then there’s the smaller more ‘traditional’ side. I’m intrigued at how such a disconnect has been able to occur.
@ForumCheques Well, they shouldn’t violate their consciences. Everyone knows that women should not be allowed to choose the number of children that they have. Fr. Barron is so very, very right. If you think about it, birth control murders those kids who would have been there. How can you favor murder???
@RondelayAOK This argument about “forcing people to violate their consciences” is patently absurd. Where is your outrage for the NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT of Christian women who have admitted to using birth control at one point in their lives?
@Pi10sco You are so very very correct. We must preserve the holy Catholic Church! The only presidential candidate who will do this for us is Rick Santorum. What a very good man. He completely agrees with the good Fr. Barron about that terrible Obama. I think that we should all vote for Sen. Santorum and elect him president. That’s the only way to block the terrible Obama!
@BalladoftheWindfish You are not a nice person! I just got your response in my email. I am a person struggling with my wonderful Catholic faith and trying desperately to understand what is best. Fr. Barron is my lifeline. I’ve studied most of his videos. He is so clear in his teachings and so very kind hearted. You should be ashamed of yourself for being so terrible.
@TheOtherKatie Oh, yes. It is communism or much much worse. Imagine that Barack Obama telling women that they are allowed to control their own reproduction! Such a terrible thing!!! And then to force the wonderful, holy Catholic Church to make sure that women can choose birth control! Fr. Barron needs to make a presentation about the terrible evil of birth control and help to elect Rick Santorum, who is the only one who speaks for us.
@strugglingtobecathol I agree. If they did this in a secular way-but they should not force it on Catholic institutions and really it is one step away from communism. I’m a woman, and I agree that I really do not need this “reproductive freedom” and every child is a gift from God
@TheOtherKatie The very idea that President Barack Obama should ensure the reproductive freedom of women is repugnant beyond words. Women don’t need reproductive freedom! We all know that. The Church alone should decide!
@TheOtherKatie Yes. For sure. I would like to see Fr. Barron present a piece on why artificial birth control is so very, very wrong! The news media keep saying that 99% of Catholics use birth control. What a hateful thing to say! Fr. Barron should counter this and explain why birth control is such a huge evil. Think how many people could’ve been born if men and women didn’t block it. Terrible!
@net3431 I agree, many Catholics use birth control without realizing-or without caring that it’s wrong. I know it’s never addressed at my parish and that troubles me a lot.
@jontv Why do you feel it’s acceptable to force people to violate their consciences?
This seems unAmerican.
could you do a commentary about the Harry Potter series? Christians seem to either hate it because it involves witchcraft or love it because it promotes admirable qualities like bravery, mercifulness, loyalty, etc.
@net3431 I feel sorry just thinking about the good Fr. opening that can o’worms… Trolls will emerge from every orifice. But you do agree that the Church’s best tactic remains to shield itself behind the Constitution? The Bill of Rights is there to protect us from the tyranny of the majority, who do not share the Catholic view on contraception.
@StrugglingCatholic lol, what a blatant sock account. Fr. Barron, you should ban this person.
To anyone reading: downvote and flag for spam the comments of @StrugglingCatholic and @belfastfreethinker.
When are we going to see “Fr. Barron comments on Birth Control”? We must face this problem squarely. We seem to talk around it, but never address it directly. To speak of the HHS mandate as an issue of religious liberty seems to me to be a way to evade a more important discussion: the respect for life. When we turn a personal ethical decision into an lofty discussion of politics and power, we quietly condone sin. Worse, we do not even inform the sinners that they are making a mistake.
@trajan75 And without some way of spreading the risk among all of us, medical bankruptcy will continue to be the Dickensian plague of our American society.
@trajan75 But regarding the individual mandate (not the contraception mandate, which is the good Fr. Is addressing), I would have to disagree with you. We have had the free market already, that’s why premiums are rising. I pay $800 per month for me and my kids. Unless you want a British or Canadian style single payer system, we all have to “man up” and pay our share together. You do pay your full share when you go to the grocery store, right? Why not when you go to the hospital?