101 Reasons not to be a Catholic?!
"There are a million reasons not to be a Catholic and only one reason to be one."
It is a great pleasure to announce Mark Shea's upcoming presentation at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church on June 6th at 7:00p, following the first Friday Mass.
Mark Shea is the editor of Catholic Exchange and one of the directors of the Seattle Chesterton Society. You may have heard bits by him on KIHM every now and again. Anyways, he is going to give his excellent talk, titled "101 Reasons not to be a Catholic" which addresses many of the arguments against the church in a very unique, in a very Chestertonian fashion. He starts out humorously juxtaposing certain arguments against each other. For instance the argument that the church is patriarchal for having a male priesthood and the argument that it is idolatrous because it worships Mary. Or another example "we [Catholics] loathe sex while having thousands of children." He gives many many such examples, which keeps the audience rolling, but comes together to form the central point of his talk. It's a point Chesterton makes in Orthodoxy, which he quotes:
Suppose we heard an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men saidhe was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness,some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation (as has been already admitted) would be thathe might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. Outrageously tall men mightfeel him to be short. Very short men might feel him to be tall. Old bucks who are growing stout might consider him insufficiently filled out;old beaux who were growing thin might feel that he expanded beyond thenarrow lines of elegance. Perhaps Swedes (who have pale hairlike tow) called him a dark man, while negroes considered himdistinctly blonde. Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thingis really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre.
But I don't want to give too much away just now, but to encourage you all to set this date down in your calendar. I promise, you will love his presentation. And for those of you connected with other interested parties don't hesitate to invite whoever you wish.
It is a great pleasure to announce Mark Shea's upcoming presentation at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church on June 6th at 7:00p, following the first Friday Mass.
Mark Shea is the editor of Catholic Exchange and one of the directors of the Seattle Chesterton Society. You may have heard bits by him on KIHM every now and again. Anyways, he is going to give his excellent talk, titled "101 Reasons not to be a Catholic" which addresses many of the arguments against the church in a very unique, in a very Chestertonian fashion. He starts out humorously juxtaposing certain arguments against each other. For instance the argument that the church is patriarchal for having a male priesthood and the argument that it is idolatrous because it worships Mary. Or another example "we [Catholics] loathe sex while having thousands of children." He gives many many such examples, which keeps the audience rolling, but comes together to form the central point of his talk. It's a point Chesterton makes in Orthodoxy, which he quotes:
Suppose we heard an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men saidhe was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness,some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation (as has been already admitted) would be thathe might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. Outrageously tall men mightfeel him to be short. Very short men might feel him to be tall. Old bucks who are growing stout might consider him insufficiently filled out;old beaux who were growing thin might feel that he expanded beyond thenarrow lines of elegance. Perhaps Swedes (who have pale hairlike tow) called him a dark man, while negroes considered himdistinctly blonde. Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thingis really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre.
But I don't want to give too much away just now, but to encourage you all to set this date down in your calendar. I promise, you will love his presentation. And for those of you connected with other interested parties don't hesitate to invite whoever you wish.
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