growing ‘coarseness’ in society affects church
Bishop William S. Skylstad warned U.S. Bishops that a growing “coarseness” in U.S. society has had its impact on the Catholic Church.
“Today vulgarity is common, hardly noticed. Even the name of God is disrespected in everyday speech,” he said. Bishop Skylstad stressed that the countries history of vigorous, free exchange of ideas is gone. Instead of debate, we see more and more personal attacks.
This is a great point to stress to the Bishops and to all Catholics.
We see the same personal attacks and harsh debates within the church. I am sure that some of you have left a parish council or a school council meeting in disbelief that you were at a meeting of Catholics. The advice to his fellow bishops to “foster attitudes and discourse based in charity” is good advice for us all. (more)
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