first comments for week.

First Comments The main press event for me is about the most dreadful article I have ever read from the Capsule. This is an account of a lecture in summary given by Professor Jack Mahoney. However it will have to wait until tomorrow. Here are some other points.
RELATIVISM I noted some time back that the Holy Father had stated that one of the basic causes of the recent riots over here was moral relativism...which in effect creeps into our "Catholic" education system as well as to state schools...this is that moral or ethical teaching is not really based on a natural law in turn based on the basic 10 commandments and capable of being worked out by everyone who reasons about this point, but this is replaced by the theory "everyone must work his own moral syllabus" Of course that in turns lead to the students view that I I I COME FIRST And I can do what I like if it suits me, and if my gang are doing it, like stealing, setting fire to premises, enjoying a riot for the fun of it etc. I find it sometime when speaking with other priests who talk of "taking people WHERE THEY ARE instead of where you want them to be" (in terms of behaviour).
THE CATHOLIC HERALD had a letter in this week protesting about the false dichotomy between ecumenism and evangelisation. The writer says that the Vat Council's decrees on ecumenism have concentrated on tolerance, understanding etc. But this may well clash with the need to evangelise especially where the differences are fundamental. Indeed the writer adds that several "prominent cardinals and Bishops are on record as saying that the Church no longer wishes to convert only to help others to become better adherents to their own faith." Indeed with such a theory it is says the writer "We cant be both" (evangelise and ecumenise).l