Prophets of prophylactics
Diogenes at CWN reports:
Catholics for a Free Choice has set up a dummy WYD blog to shill for the transparently bogus "international youth coalition" that just happens to echo CFFC's talking points, etc. There are some amusingly bad attempts at forging spontaneous reactions in the comments boxes.
Well the comment boxes are now gone - so much for free choice in expression.
Note that Tim Drake reports that some journalists are exploiting the event to squeeze out of the kids the anti-Church opinions they want to hear and broadcast -- a fact doubly confirmed by the "youths" of Kissling's cadre, gloating about "interviews galore." Surprised?
Well as to be expected, not surprised. The media could walk into a gold mind and come out with joy at finding Iron Sulfide (fool's gold). Though I guess it is a good thing that the culture of death shrills from CFFC have volunteered to play the part of the Tares at WYD.
The faux blog from the prophets of prophylactics links to a ABC News story where the headline refers to WYD as Catholic Woodstock which might be one of the lamest comparisons ever and quite the opposite of that festival for nihilism in upstate New York. But the article they link to is interesting when it compares the depth (or lack of) of arguments on both sides.
On the pro-abort side:
"I think that responsible Catholics should be able to decide for themselves what they want to do around sexual health and reproductive rights,"
"I think the church leaders hold views that are out of touch with most Catholics and [they] promote policies that aren't smart,"
The Church's position noted:
Quoting Pope John Paul II's book called "Love and Responsibility," Loyola College professor of theology Stephen Miles explains that the pope justified the church's traditional stance on sex because it represents a total self-giving on the part of the partners. "Sex for the sake of pleasure is about self-gratification, so it interferes with our efforts to realize our vocation," said Miles. Humanity's vocation is to give ourselves away according to the pope's writings, he said. Catholicism teaches that sex has two purposes, one of which is to unite with your partner and the other is to have children — neither excludes pleasure, he adds. "Legitimizing contraception would divide both purposes," said Miles. "The church has an interest in listening to others but it resolves differences through careful study of stricture," Miles said. Catholics have to be very careful bringing interest group mentality into the church, he added. To him the "Catholics for a Free Choice" point of view lacks religious rigor. "If there is to be an argument for contraception, it has to address the teaching of the church and if it does, then the church would have to change teachings."
Or to put the contrasting views more succinctly - self-gratification compared to self-giving.
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I said it before, that's not a fair fight -- a slick reporter vs. a teenager (no matter how well spoken that teen is).
this morning I was yelling at the radio again - NPR coverage of WYD with the obligatory snipe at the church's sexual ethos
I wonder how many youth they had to interview to find that particular POV?
From their 'blog':
Cheers,
Joke van Kampen
the Netherlands
Well, they've got the JOKE part right! Reading that garbage makes me cringe...they're worse than Cafeteria Catholics....they've thrown out the entire Theological Kitchen!!!!
...And as for NPR...for your daily dose of liberal ethos. Bah! Try on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I flipped the channel a night about a month ago to the show with some sort of a Saturday Night Live skit with Kimmel having a caricatured Pope Benedict beating up a Harry Potter with priceless works of art...I can't stand that Jimmy Kimmel Live show. Anti-Catholicism (Anti-Church doctrine) is abound every where in our society these days... Sad really.
Yesterday as the Pope sailed the Rhine I saw a poster from Vocation.com with B16 on it.
The tagline?
"Catholics for a REAL choice"
Real Catholics choose love, life and responsibility.
Way to evangelise Vocation.com You guys rock!
The url wyd4all.org is registered to a guy in Germany. He is one of the coordinators of a website that promotes changes in the church like women priests, married priests, support for homosexuality and abortion, etc. All of the "progessive" garbage that we hear all the time.
Desperate, ridiculous and almost laughable.
Hey "wyd4all" get your own World Youth Day and stay outta ours! Bringing dissident messages like contraception to an audience predominantly eager for the tenants of the Church is like bringing a side of beef to a vegetarian convention. Or, to be more precise, a dog to a CATholic show.
I blanche at that whole "Catholic Woodstock" comparison as well. I have a friend whose family lived in that area when he was growing up and it was a nightmare for them. Predominantly farmers, the constant loud music meant their chickens wouldn't lay eggs for weeks, they had vomiting and passed out drunken people all over the place, frighteningly crazy high teens and broken and stolen property. All in all, it was anything but the "love and peace" gathering that folks so fondly extoll it to be -- from the perspective of the people who lived there.
These "Catholics" are a fine bunch. They say they believe in the faith. Which faith might it be? Condomism?
How can they say they are Catholic if they continue to slander the Church, and especially the bishops and the Successor of St. Peter?
Sounds like those condomite fools have been wearing condoms for too long, maybe over their heads causing them severe brain damage. It seems something of an obcession for them to give their lives to the almighty condom.
Jesus, Mary & Joseph pray for them