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Charles J. Chaput: The Catholic role in America after virtue

By Alliance Alert

CatholicCulture.org has the text of remarks given by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars on Sunday, Sept. 26: "The inquisitors of today's developed societies are secular, not religious. The real enemies of human freedom, greatness, imagination, art, hope, culture and conscience are those who attack religious belief, not believers . . . The central problem in constructing a Christian culture is our lack of faith and the cowardice it produces. We need to admit this. And then we need to submit ourselves to a path of repentance and change, and unselfish witness to others . . . The role of Catholics in America is exactly the opposite of what we've been doing for half a century or more ? compromising too cheaply, assimilating, fitting in, fleeing from who we really are as believers; and in the process, being bleached out and digested by the culture we were sent to make holy."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).