One of Fr. Barron’s newest videos, and in one sense, one of his more unusual videos. Critique of a papal encyclical is not something you hear every day from the head of Word on Fire. One of course has to ask the question: if this is the official teaching of the Church and the Church is asking for a kind of world government, how are Catholic supposed to respond? Perhaps Fr. Barron can do a follow up on that question.
July 29, 2009 at 10:37 pm
…maybe we could respond by teaming up with the various Orthodox Churches?
Just kidding…kinda.
But please forgive me, one world government talk scares the bojangles out of me.
If it turns out my old Baptist ministers were right after all and the Papacy really is in league with some Bilderberg group thingy…I'm going to laugh so hard and so long in my tiny little cell on prison block 93.
Oh the irony of it all! The rumors we Catholic apologists set out to disprove may prove themselves true.
July 29, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Your question at the title of this post "How should Catholics respond?" has a self-evident answer: with humilty and obedience, as we should ALL papal encycles.
July 30, 2009 at 12:38 am
That's the difference between politics and morality. In morality, the Catholic Church's unrelenting belief in the sanctity and dignity of life is something glorious.
In politics, believing in a wonderful ideal for everybody means… you don't know anything about politics.
July 30, 2009 at 4:04 am
How? By finding ways to implement the Pope's teaching e.g.
1.) re: veritas & agape, by being charitable when fisking posts.
2.) re: world "gov't", by joining the Iranian protesters
3.) re: ecology, by planting a tree
July 30, 2009 at 4:09 pm
what does fisking mean?
July 30, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Couple of points..
The Encyclical both supports a greater authority (teeth) in a centralized governing body, and a greater independence (subsidiarity).
Hard to figure where this would lead. What role goes to the centralized body (candy collection at Halloween is my preference) and what authority resolves to the individual (pretty much everything elese, IMO).
The encyclical is not quite clear, but, certainly open to interpretation by people of good will. In either case, a central authority, much like an individual is capable of good or evil, or most commonly indifference.
JBP
July 30, 2009 at 6:15 pm
for anon: Fisk is
A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual; flaming or handwaving is considered poor form. Named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist who was a frequent (and deserving) early target of such treatment.[2]
July 31, 2009 at 2:53 am
I'm mostly offended that Fr. Barron gives us all the finger at 1:07. LOL