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Politics, Art, Religion - part 8

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· Politics, Art, Religion - part 1

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 2

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 3

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 4

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 5

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 6

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 7

· Politics, Art, Religion - part 8

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Instead of resenting charges or denying them brusquely or sarcastically, you ought gently, if firmly, to cross-question the one who makes them, in order to discover what fire, if any, there is behind the smoke. Then, if it concerns human failings, you should explain that no faith is free from sinful members, that any Church, yours included, is for sinners as well as for saints. If it concerns an article of faith, or a Church law, you ought to explain the reasons for it and show its basic justice, patiently and sympathetically. You must keep in mind that while many questions of faith and morals must be regarded as settled, there are also some which have not yet had definitive pronouncements, and that even with regard to the denned articles there are many unsettled problems of application. "The Catholic view," writes Father Vincent J. Flynn, "is that truth has been found; not all truth, but a very considerable segment" (Prose Readings, p. 491). It is the unfound segments that should keep us humble and open-minded in discussion. Another writer, Sister Mariella, says in a few sentences that should be inscribed in the heart of every Catholic apologist, "The Catholics have the full answer. But let us be honest. Let us not claim to have given that answer as yet" (" 'Catholic' Fiction"). All those answers which still need to be given are powerful reasons, even if the precepts of courtesy and charity weren't sufficient, why a we-know-it-all approach is a poor one for promoting a worthwhile religious discussion. In a religious conversation your tone and manner will show that whatever your denomination, you realize that much needs still to be settled and that you yourself are humbly conscious of St. Paul's complaint that we see but darkly as through a glass, and yearn for more light, wherever it may come from. A truly Christian conversationalist will be on the lookout for the right time, place, and persons to raise the topic of conversation to the level of religion. He will guide it in that direction unobtrusively, naturally. There are several natural openings. You can comment about religious news items which appeared in the paper or which you heard on the radio. A plausible opening is a reference to a church affair, a picnic or social. Better still are comments on sermons recently heard. When Coolidge came home from a particular Sunday service it was natural for Mrs. Coolidge to ask him what the minister had preached about. In this instance Coolidge answered, "Sin." When she persisted, "Well, what did he say about sin?" this great, conservative New Englander answered, "He was agin' it." Coolidge was not an effervescent conversationalist 1 But any moderately alert person, given such an opening, could carry the conversation into many of the most important problems that face our country — secularism, separation of Church and State, religious education; mixed marriage, divorce, birth control; conscience, free will, dogma and infallibility; psychiatry, confession, and peace of mind and soul; statism, communism, democracy; denominationalism, nationalism, racism; armaments, security, justice, and peace. Christianity touches upon all of man's most important problems. Its very mention is a challenge to secularism, which is the conspiracy of silence against it.

Christianity is the living body of all of man's most significant principles and truths. It is also the organism suffering most from every difference of sect and creed. Religion in conversation must have as its ultimate aim the eventual removal of dogmatic and sectarian differences. Theological truth is the most important truth, and religious unity the most important unity. Mankind has no cause to be smug until it has achieved these. Religious conversation must strive toward seeing and making others see and champion the truth, the way, and the light — in all matters that are stacked up along our individual and collective path to heaven. There we shall all have to get along together and to believe the same things.

To avoid life's most important topics in our conversation is to put them off to the next world — where we shall unavoidably have to meet them face to face. Talking about these things wisely and courteously and frequently here may be the factor which decides whether, when we meet these ideas in the next world, we shall enjoy them with the right crowd, or suffer from them with the wrong crowd!

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