Amen!

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Terrified of Risk, Enslaved to Our Own Ideas

We often hear that a problem with young people today is that we are irresponsible. We don’t have a sense of duty. We don’t have a sense of order. We’re immature. I think that the problem is actually the opposite.

I think that we are pathologically terrified of risk and I think that we have this enslavement to our own ideas of respectability, our own ideas of our life plan, our commitments, our existing duties such that something as radically changing as a new life doesn’t fit in with those existing duties. To accept that life would be the irresponsible choice, and that’s the framework from which a lot of people are operating. They see themselves as accepting consequences, as responsible. They have a semblance of a moral framework and we can’t ignore that just because it’s completely the opposite of our own. And this isn’t just about whether or not you accept a child. I think that we are so enslaved to a plan, and a routine, and a vision of our lives, we can’t embrace the unsettledness, openness, flexibility, and folly it takes to have an actually pro-life culture in every instance.

Tristyn Bloom, “Beyond the Pro-Life Pep Rally: Where Do We Go From Here?” Read the rest here.

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What is Science?

If “science” means “indubitable,” then there is no science in science. If it means “very persuasive,” then much clear and honest thinking is scientific.

Deirdre McCloskey (1985/1998), The Rhetoric of Economics, p. 72.

h/t: Cafe Hayek

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Vatican Social Communications Leader Encourages Catholics to Embrace Digital Media

Source: The Catholic Voices Blog.

… the way we give the Internet a soul isn’t simply Christian presence there, but it’s by making sure that there is a “true, integral, humanity expressed on the Internet. That there is space for spirituality, for questioning, for doubt, for learning. By our receptivity to those, we create a space for the Internet to have a soul, but we’re not the soul. Every human being has deeper questions and we need to create the forum, a framework, and a lack of fear that will allow people to do that meaningfully.”

Monsignor Paul Tighe, the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, was the keynote speaker at the Catholic New Media Conference in Boston on October 19, 2013.

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A “New” Orthodox Blog

Fr John Guy Winfrey, the priest at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Grand Rapids, MI has re-booted his blog PadreTex. Why not surf over, take a look and maybe leave a “Howdy, y’all!” To this poor transplanted Texan living in the frozen Mind-West?

In Christ,

+Fr Gregory

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