A lowly man's thoughts

I absolutely do not think that you can create a real distinction between being Catholic and Pro-Life. For the sake of this, I would say that being Pro-life is to say encouraging and fostering life from the moment of (natural) conception to (natural) death.

Natural is in parenthesis, because, usually as Catholics we hope for natural causes, though, if a life is brought into being through artificial means, it is ought to be valued all the same.

Now I get back to the point. The idea is this: Why would you blow your whistles about being so pro-life when you’re Catholic? You shouldn’t. If you identify yourself as Catholic, it should follow that you are pro-life, seeing as Catholicism is directly “pro-life”, as supported by Scripture, Church documents and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Thus, I conclude with this:
If you are having a problem with feeling the need to qualify the fact that you’re Catholic by saying you are pro-life, you need to really get in touch with the essence of ‘Being-a-Catholic’ or you need to catechize those who don’t know that no real distinction exists.

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I have found that a stir is being caused at my university by a group of young people who have a particular interest in invoking thought into the minds of students on campus. It seems that different people share the view that the campus is becoming more and more filled with narrow-mindedness, I agree. I too have found it necessary to address this issue, and so I have (been).

When taking upon ourselves the task of being the pot stirrer, we must remain cautious. Of what? Of becoming exactly what we are trying to combat: narrow-mindedness, bigotry, vanity, silliness, etc. If we are what we’re opposing, then we are more prone to being ignored, our efforts become futile.

Looking at what has been posted so far on these “rogue” or “underground” forums, I may offer these suggestions:

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Allow me to proceed towards a second fence, it is white and short, and I have tripped. Ah yes. The judgment is so thick here, I could take a bite right into it. Delicious?, I think not. It has reached the level of absurdity that you make it quite obvious that it is fear driven. If only it was something as simple as judging someones manner of appearance. I thank Allah for the blessing of not having any homosexuals, especially those who are not ashamed of who they are as people, here on campus. We offer enormous tuition discounts for locals, and oh my goodness, it is glorious to know that the amount of Muslims in the local area is quite small. You would judge the goodness out of them. I miss my gay and Muslim friends, would they survive here? Do you care? Or is it your intention to suffocate them?

This third fence involves our inter-clan judging. This poor fence has judgment written all over it and is accompanied by the names of many familiar households on campus. Yes, I am referring to those of you who try to judge the spiritual life of other people on campus, I did not know that that God took a break from that and let you fill in. You say you do not condemn the ‘bad’ but merely choose to hang out with and uplift the ‘good’ on campus? Yup, that is judging. It is not merely reserved to spiritual, but also intellectual judging. Allow me to provide one simple suggestion: next time you threaten me, offer me anything, or desire something of me like my blood at a blood drive (to you blood Nazi’s out there), realize, I will probably say no, or no thank you, or not today, out of the kindness of my heart and respect for you in your position to recruit for some sort of activity. If you ask me to “pray about it”, please, don’t be shocked if I throw a textbook at you, or tell you to shut up. Why don’t you pray about being alleviated from your stupidity? The next time I entertain the idea of and promote the excellent aspects of an ideal, like Socialism, please don’t condemn me to hell, first read a book on it, then discuss, you’re good at that! Learn the difference between holding someone accountable and judging please, thank you.

The last fence is coming, and I’m running towards the good, the true, the beautiful, and you bet someone here is going to trip me. My hope in men is usually destroyed by men. We really get way ahead of our selves here, as we “call men to holiness”, let us rather ‘call men to common-sense and maturity’, I know that’s asking a lot, should we lower the standards? Love me, don’t judge me.

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Let me try to jump this first fence. Allow us to entertain the idea of loving our neighbors, all of them. Yes, let us love the Christians (including the Protestants), the Jews, the Muslims, the Atheists, the Agnostics, the confused, and the others. I would dare say that we are called to such an action of loving our neighbors, all of them. So what is the problem? Well, we either don’t love, or are selective about who we love, which is pretty much the same thing. I would argue that aside from forced conversions that we find in our Church’s history such as offerings of sweet magic, guns and medicine, we have remained a strong institution by the way we love, not only one another, but the ones without faith among us.

I was recently accused of bashing this school. Thank you to those of you who accused me of such things, it brings me joy to know that some one is reading at least part of what I have been writing. Anyways, seeing as you have obviously not tried to talk to me the civilized way and thus remain without knowledge, I will not blame you for your ignorance, seeing as you could not have yet been enlightened. In this same fashion we do not hold the ignorant to the same standards to which we are held, we have a higher calling. What a profound idea…

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