tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post1166204192173797663..comments2024-03-19T15:26:26.055+00:00Comments on auntie joanna writes: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-75492051460747861132007-06-27T12:03:00.000+01:002007-06-27T12:03:00.000+01:00Joanna, Guy has the reputation in Australia of bei...Joanna, Guy has the reputation in Australia of being the nicest, politest, chaste and most loving Christian musician around. He has a very high profile in the media and with the public. If you persist in your endeavour to attack Guy and actually achieve having him removed from the WYD events, you will send a message to the youth of Australia that Guy is not good enough for Catholics. Their immediate response will be, "Well if Guy isn't good enough for them then who the hell is?" They will walk away from your church and Christ. Is that what you really want? Will you be a contributor their stumbling block? Think carefully through what you are suggesting. <BR/>Alternately you could support the youth of today and be accepting of this non-Catholic but very beautiful Christan man. What a testimony it would be to show them your love and support instead.pat mathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12953652307833622394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-8606901217095383472007-05-21T14:43:00.000+01:002007-05-21T14:43:00.000+01:00For God's sake, Joanna, back off. You'll only mak...For God's sake, Joanna, back off. You'll only make a fool of yourself, impress nobody, and be regarded by the young (for whom World Youth Day exists) as a mad old bat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-7528663692828673012007-05-21T00:36:00.000+01:002007-05-21T00:36:00.000+01:00Guy Sebastian is a great young man who has been ve...Guy Sebastian is a great young man who has been very open about being a virgin and waiting for marriage. I'm incredibly thankful we'll have a pop singer at WYD who really believes, lives and communicates the Church's message on chastity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-52197479827718500672007-05-20T15:23:00.000+01:002007-05-20T15:23:00.000+01:00Joanna,I have found also in churches and "new musi...Joanna,<BR/>I have found also in churches and "new music", books and so on people are queitly and slowly removing black and white as far as scripture, truth and teachings are concerned and replacing it with these "grey" generic terms and beleifs that simply do not belong in this environment. You are wise to look into this further, and try and put a halt to something innapropriate now. before it becomes the norm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-40090756370765727782007-05-20T06:31:00.000+01:002007-05-20T06:31:00.000+01:00Apparently there was a contest and Catholics were ...Apparently there was a contest and Catholics were invited to submit a song. 120 were submitted and they didn't make the grade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-60284711354888853682007-05-20T02:00:00.000+01:002007-05-20T02:00:00.000+01:00Mozart (freemason) wrote some of the most spiritua...Mozart (freemason) wrote some of the most spiritually uplifting music of all time. Ditto Wagner (anti-semite, adulterer). Ditto Schubert (unmarried, died of syphilis). I think that we should stop and think carefully before banning music because the composer persists in evident sin. Moral outrage is all well and good, but babies and bathwater come to mind. <BR/><BR/>As far as I or anyone else seems to be aware, this particular talented young man of 26 does not proselytise for "gay culture". If I were a betting man, I would wager that very many, if not a majority of, those who regard themselves as practising Catholics in Europe, America and Australia share his muddled, be-as-loving-as-you-can views, and not a few priests as well. (But then they're not celebs, so no reporter asks them.) <BR/><BR/>As for the reasons for this state of affairs we have to go deeper: among others, bad catechesis, abdication of Christian values in Christian schools and the pervasive current ethical consensus among political and intellectual elites in the West, which has also infected many churchmen. <BR/><BR/>Would the greater good be served by throwing out this particular singer-songwriter? He's not there to preach, or act as a role model, or to be some sort of extraordinary minister, but to sing what is generally agreed to be a rousing and morally uplifting song (although it's very possible that I would hate it, but then I'm not going). <BR/><BR/>And is anything that John “We Resist You to The Face” Vennari writes really a reliable guide to anything?Londiniensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15310965192661014230noreply@blogger.com