tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post5752531313014272824..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: What to do about the masses?Richard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-57362966633244751552012-02-26T09:51:09.865+00:002012-02-26T09:51:09.865+00:00Winston Churchill said that the best English is ex...Winston Churchill said that the best English is expressed in the simplest language. Intellectual argument explained in those terms is not impossible. The Pope often does it. The best teachers have always done it.<br />I think many of us of a certain age will have been exposed to it in our own upbringing as Catholics. It's precisely this which has been chucked down the drain, mirroring the shift in general education towards not hurting the brains of the little dears. In both cases we see the results.<br />There seems to have been an unspoken consensus that the majority of people are too simple to take in complex or abstract ideas. This has not come from genuine intellectuals but from those less endowed and it's poppycock. <br />I think this attitude has been misguided rather than deliberate. Nevertheless, if you keep people in a twilight of semi-knowledge they do not have the means to challenge or to engage in lively debate and you retain control.<br />And, whilst I'm on my high horse, I'm getting rather tired of the "middle class" being excoriated for the mess we're in. At the three parishes within striking distance (lucky me) the leading lay lights are definitely not middle class. So flippin' there!Gentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569143943867323153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-2735103653392086292012-02-24T19:39:29.351+00:002012-02-24T19:39:29.351+00:00Servusmariaen - as Archbishop Sheen used to say, t...Servusmariaen - as Archbishop Sheen used to say, these are marvellous times in which to be a Catholic! It's easy being a Catholic when you go unchallenged.<br />I take comfort from those words.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-30008196455289230252012-02-24T17:06:10.569+00:002012-02-24T17:06:10.569+00:00This all weighs very heavily on my heart. I'm ...This all weighs very heavily on my heart. I'm sometimes overwhelmed when I consider that at age 45 I have never known anything but the current continuing crisis of faith in the Church. Sometimes it's all just too much. At first glace, I laughed when I saw the bus to "nowhere in particular" but it's really pathetic. It's so true.ServusMariaeNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13963287463957393931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-13543518588789634122012-02-23T16:52:29.109+00:002012-02-23T16:52:29.109+00:00The average man rejects because Jesus said, "...The average man rejects because Jesus said, "Many are called, but few are chosen." Meditation at:<br />http://www.colleenhammond.com/catholics/meditations/the-small-number-of-the-electjoanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14163855804754963521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-32106298292667335062012-02-23T12:12:29.641+00:002012-02-23T12:12:29.641+00:00You make some really excellent points. I find myse...You make some really excellent points. I find myself praying for the graces to write like C S Lewis and avoid the smarty-pants patronising stuff that the average man rejects as piffle. Images are incredibly important, I think they need to tell the story of the blog post.Mary O'Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111088825250138537noreply@blogger.com