Showing posts with label Fulton Sheen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fulton Sheen. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2016

Bishop Sheen on Agnosticism



Agnosticism is an evil when it contends not only that an individual mind knows nothing but also that no other mind knows anything. In this sense, it is cowardly because it runs away from the problems of life.

Only about 10% of people think for themselves.
Columnists and headline writes thing for the greater percent of the remainder.

Those who are left are the agnostics, who think agnosticism is an answer to the riddle of life.

Agnosticism is not an answer. It is not even a question.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Tolerance vs Intolerance

Archbishop Sheen Responds to Pope Francis

"America is not suffering so much from intolerance as it is suffering from a false kind of tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong; truth and error; virtue and vice; Christ and chaos...this false broad-mindedness or tolerance of truth and error has carried many minds so far that they say one religion is just as good as another.

Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's.

Christ was tolerant about where He slept and what He ate; He was tolerant about shortcomings of His fish-smelling apostles; He was tolerant of those who nailed Him to the Cross, but He was absolutely intolerant about His claim to be Divine...Tolerance to His Mind was not always good, nor was intolerance always evil."