The last shall be first, and the first, last.
I am doing the "Read the Catechism in a year" program. It was damaged halfway through by copyright issues. The Bishops conference, or their lawyers, apparently did not like the idea of sending out the catechism in e-mail a small chunk at a time. So they switched to the YouCat, the "Youth Catechism" and made hyperlinks out of the real Catechism references.
I cannot help but think that today's topic, the principle of subsidiarity, is pertinent:
In the 21st century in the United States of America, subsidiarity is illegal. The supremacy of federal law dictates one culture, one law, in the States, and heaven help the State, the City, or the County that steps out of line. And because the Bishops have chosen to nearly abandon the Imprimatur and the Nihil Obstat in favor of American copyright law, even a lay New Evangelization project like Read The Catechism in a Year is affected by the centralized groupthink.
Clericalism has done so much harm to the Church. If they really want to get the laity involved, we need subsidiarity, not federalism.
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It seems to me that you've allowed your bias against heterosexual marriage and the traditional family to damage your reason and logic.
You've traded eternal life for gay marriage and euthanasia. Seems like a very *bad* trade to me.
The day will come when you no longer exist. Instead of wasting that great mind of yours learning more of the teachings of the Catholic Church and diligently defending them, you should think about how your worldview would change if I were right about what I have said about you ceasing to exist someday. It's funny, but one cannot help sounding like one is controlled by the devil when one tries to talk sense into a Catholic. That is because Catholics have been brainwashed to think that so as to keep the faith going to the next generation. It is what Richard Dawkins calls a meme in "The Selfish Gene".
The only reason you've ever given me to oppose the church (real reason, not emotional claptrap) has been because you want the freedom to sin.
Someday, I would love to see your proof that the human race can survive with only gay marriage, since it's clear that is the way the rhetoric is going, that heterosexuals who have children and want to protect those children are evil.