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...most basic thing that needs to be addressed is this person, his pain or anger, her confusion or bewilderment. The church's teaching on this is clear: people with homosexual or heterosexual orientations are persons with an equal God-given dignity. Persons who deserve respect and understanding, honesty and insight. What does this mean concretely...
This brings me to honesty and insight--to what "fidelity to God's word" means. As a Catholic and a priest, I approach the search for life's most important and ultimate questions within a community that turns beyond itself for answers that are "more fully human." As a believing community, the Catholic Church holds to particular meanings and values for human life. We see these as flowing from our nature as persons created by God. On the basis of its scripture and ongoing tradition, the Church sees the meaning and value of sexuality itself in the context of human...
This truth as I perceive it, this insight into sexuality, is one that some people find difficult to accept or understand. Most of us who strive to accept and embrace it admit that it is not an easy truth to integrate into our personal lives or explain to the world around us. Consistent with the Christian command "to love in truth and in deed," we struggle as single and married people, as heterosexual and homosexual people, to find ways to help one another and those beyond our community of faith to discover the meaning and value of sexuality in ways...
...mother, and her sister, whose answer to everything is writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty of wisecracks but not much wisdom. W.A.H...
Perhaps the best insight into Rifkin's complex mind and motivations appears in his 1983 work Algeny, a book that presents a creationist-like view of Darwin and makes it clear that Rifkin disapproves of tampering with the genes of any of God's creatures--from viruses to man. In Algeny, Biologist Stephen Jay Gould charged in a 1985 review, Rifkin "uses every debater's trick in the book to mischaracterize and trivialize his opposition, and to place his own dubious claims in a rosy light." The book, Gould concludes, is "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading...