Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And the old movies. I can’t even watch the stuff that they bilge out now. Fortunately, my wife was on a mission to create a DVD library of a lot of those old movies.
LKL:
The books in the public library have rewritten the history in favor of the LGBTQ+, It seems everybody is or was homosexual and/or eugenicist. Michelangelo, DaVinci, Helen Keller.
The decent taxpayer is being swindled.
Thank you for saving the good, the true and the beautiful.
One of the many things I value in old books–those written in English–is that they remind us how beautiful and expressive the English language can be. That’s especially true for the last ten to twenty years, wherein such basic things as the distinction between “he” and “him” or “she” and “her” has become ridiculously confused: “I can’t visualze he and them leaving the party early,” as an example.
It may be time when a parish or diocese needs to establish a Catholic library. (Not a system though – we do real good at fouling those up! Look at “Catholic “hospitals…)
In the meantime, I’ll be doing the work that the modernist Church is too good to do – adding to my collection of old Catholic books and catechizing my children. They go hand in hand. The workbook CCD gave my daughter for her first communion is very walking togethery. Good thing I can edit as I read 🙂
You can easily see this if you know people who watch old media (including movies and such) vs. those that focus entirely on new media. People who watch old media are not necessarily smarter. But they can form an independent opinion from current trends. If you are only engaging with new stuff you will be so swept in the stream of popular opinion that you won’t even be aware that it is happening.
When people only partake of the new, they can be handed an entirely new set of beliefs from one year to the next. And when you point it out, they won’t even be aware that it has happened.
The new wording of the Passion is that two revolutionaries were crucified with Christ. What happened to the good thief and the bad thief? There is a beautiful crucifix above the high altar. The lighting is such that the shadows of the thieves appear on both sides of the crucifix. This was not planned.
There is also a trend to not capitalize the pronouns referring to God and Jesus.