{"id":4311,"date":"2010-04-19T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/04\/be-proud-that-you-are-catholic.html"},"modified":"2010-04-19T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:50:39","slug":"be-proud-that-you-are-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/04\/be-proud-that-you-are-catholic.html","title":{"rendered":"“Be proud that you are Catholic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those words conclude this remarkable speech,<\/a> delivered by a non-Catholic businessman in Ohio way back in 2003!  <\/p>\n

You’ll want to read it all, but here’s a sample: <\/p>\n

\nThe Church today, and when I say the Church keep in mind I am talking about the Catholic Church, is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by an infinitesimally small number of wayward priests that, I feel, have probably been totally weeded out by now. You see the Catholic Church is much too viable to be put down by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, take your choice, they can’t do it, they’re not going to do it and sooner or later they are going to give up, but you’ve got to make sure that you don’t give up first.<\/p>\n

In 1799 a notice was placed in a French newspaper that a citizen Brachi had died in prison. Little did the people realize that this was Pope Pius VI who had occupied the Chair of Saint Peter for 25-years. He had been taken prisoner by Napoleon’s forces and died in prison as an indigent. At that time the thought was that this was the end of the Catholic Church, this was 200 and some odd years ago. And the reason was that there was no Pope to succeed him at that time. But you fooled them then, and we’re going to fool them again. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do read the rest.<\/a> It’s really something.<\/p>\n

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