Faithful Citizenship
October 23, 2008, 8:41 am
Posted by Eduardo Peñalver
Morning’s Minion has an interesting and thoughtful post on Faithful Citizenship and the bishops up at Vox Nova. Go take a look.
Since more Catholics apparently are moving towards Obama, partisans like Hudson(who should be discredited for other reasons) , some Bishops and their defenders in the one issue approach (see the Martino thread) seek to disparage not only FC but also Bishop’s
conferences, particularly if they don’t like what the conference has to say.
Passing that off as “ecclesiology” means that leadership should think they way they do (circularly.)
Having a perspective beyond their one track, tunnel vision idea of pro-life is considered “pr-abortion;
Appreciating complexity is part of the new(I guess) catholic anti-intellectualism that says “beware of scholars.”
And for many of us here. “Commonweal Catholicism” is something to be written off as just short of if not heresy.
I tried to say in the Martino thread that the Bishoip’s Conferences, not just our own, have an important role to play but is not above criticism either in makeup or what it produces or not.
I don’t think that’s the same as flipping it off or easy suggestions about apostolic succession.
Of course, much of this continuing discussuion lies in politicization and the lurking head of partisanship within that.
Good post at Vox Nova, thanks.
Quick (embarassing) question: How do you know who authored the piece? it is one of the contributors, I presume, but I see no attribution. Or I’m going blind, which is possible.
David,
At the end of every piece by one of the official contributors on Vox Nova is something that looks like this, which is the one for the piece Eduardo Linked to
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Buried in there is the name of the contributor as one of the tags the piece is filed under.
Let me just get this off my chest … the typos were irritating.
Anyway — the bottom line on “Faithful Citizenship” is that it is not a voting guide, in the sense that it tells you, “Punch 37 on Tuesday”. It’s a formative document. What I think is frustrating to voters and individual bishops is, it doesn’t answer the question, ‘Should I vote for Obama or McCain on November 4th?’
Thanks to Eduardo for the link, and to David Gibson for gthe kind words– I appreciate your election-related posts, David, and free free to visit Vox Nova any time!
In case you haven’t seen this piece of similar information, albeit about 50 bishops:
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/12189