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Posted June 8, 2005
Already we have received some comments about Radio
Roman Catholic. Some have said our first broadcast
admits of no exception. They're right. And there
is a reason for it.
We are serious about Roman
Catholicism. We have to be.
Either the Faith is the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth or
it is not. If it contains untruths, which are
they? And how do you know? Working a day job,
raising a family, having a few hobbies, having
lived 75 years or less are you really better able
to discover the ultimate truths of the Faith that
have been revealed to tens of thousands of thinkers,
writers, philosophers, priests, bishops, cardinals,
popes, and saints? If you are, then you are either
greatly blessed by God and should let us all know,
or you have internalized the fundamental error
of Protestantism and the definition of Americanism
— the primacy of private judgment.
And, if it contains untruths,
why go to church, take the sacraments, and call
yourself a Catholic? For the business or the social
gatherings? Because you want to make the Church
in the image of America? Because you want to "reform"
the Church? If that is so, isn't your faith then
that populist, everything is democratic, freedom
of expression, do what you want, Americanism?
And Americanism is a form of Protestantism, so
aren't you a Protestant then?
One has to come to grips with
a fundamental reality of existence — our
bodies will die some day. Then what? To this question
the Faith provides the answer, and that answer
provides the meaning of our lives. Perhaps that
is something many of us don't want to hear or
know about because it calls for suffering and
living a way that is not always cool, or accepted,
or popular, in 21st Century America.
But if we want eternal life
— to go to heaven — we have to heed
the Truth and live it. Do you really want to play
a form of Russian Roulette with your soul? Do
you really want to take the chance that the Church
really doesn't mean it and things aren't the way
it says they are? If you do, is that a rational
point of view in view of the potentially dire
consequences for making an error in judgment?
Be serious about Roman Catholicism.
Learn it. Know it. Love it. Live it. We want everyone
in heaven. That's the only rational way.
That's why we are serious about
Roman Catholicism.
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