Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Having pointed out those excellent thoughts on how Catholics should respond, I shall not add to them. Instead I will focus on how we should not respond: 1). Don’t whine. It’s not you that the program offended; it was blasphemy: an offense against God. If you say, in effect, “I feel insulted!” you give the Paris organizers the opportunity to reply: “Oh, you poor dear; we’re so sorry if you took offense.” Which is indeed what they’ve said.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - The religion of nationalism, however, unlike the religion of Communism, didn’t necessarily see itself as the enemy of Christianity.  In some countries it imagined that it could co-exist with the old faith and that the two – nationalism and Christianity – could, so to speak, marry one another, or at least cohabit, locked in a not-quite-licit embrace.  In the United States, for instance, being a good Christian made you a better American nationalist, and being an American nationalist made you a better Christian.  Or so at least it has been widely felt.

By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., The Catholic Thing - Many people, including Catholic bishops and numerous Christians throughout the world, have condemned the blasphemous event that took place during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris. As almost everyone now knows, there was a mocking display of the Last Supper where Jesus was portrayed as an obese female dressed in white. She was surrounded by a gaggle of drag queen “apostles,” and a young girl was also – we should worry why? – included in this hypersexualized and sacrilegious depiction.