Heather King: Avoiding Both the Catholic Right and the Catholic Left
I just want to share this for anyone who might stumble upon this little blog. I just want to keep this here, for my children to read. I just want to keep this here to refer back, time and again. I just want THIS : http://shirtofflame.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-i-avoid-both-catholic-left-and.html This is one of my favorite written pieces from any Catholic author, or otherwise for that matter. It expressed what I longed for when I first read it. My heart hurt so when I read posts by a pro-lifer which began with, "Oh, yeah, well, if you think that then you..." directed at those who commented in disagreement on a post. The standard justification for such a lack of civility was "I just tell it like it is." I had to hide the posts from my Facebook newsfeed. I almost cried when a Catholic posted on Facebook that he had to sit by a gay couple and included the comment, "Gross." in his post. ...