Friday, February 02, 2007

Anscombe Society

Here is another great Catholic society at a secular college, Princeton dedicated to “Confirming the Goods of Family, Marriage, and Faithful Love.”

Orestes Brownson Council

Notre Dame has a very cool group called the Orestes Brownson Council on American Catholicism and Politics. Their purpose is to “discuss the classics of Catholicism in a seminar format” in a bi-monthly meeting. How cool is that?

In April they are staging a production of Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons. My son is playing Cromwell. Break a leg, Tim!

My thoughts on Ashley's treatment

The body of a human person is an expression of the personhood of the person whose body it is. Human personhood is characterized by the nuptial meaning of the body, which is the potential to use the body to show love.

The symbolic value of the human body so constructed does not depend on the actualization of that potential. That is, just because one is not exercizing one's personhood by using the body for love in the ways that that can be done does NOT mean that the body is not in fact communicating the personhood of that person--specifically their call to fruitful motherhood or fatherhood. Ashley is called to fruitful motherhood (which for her just as with us all will not be fully realized until the life to come) and that call is written on her body by God in the form of the face, hands and her sexual attributed. Even if she is not actively engaged in activity having to do with those human capacities, her body still is expressive of God's call to her and God is communicating to the rest of the world about her dignity and her vocation and the universal calling of all people by the configuration of her body. To alter that configuration for any other reason than to save essential or overall human functioning is an unethical mutilation that mutes the very word of God to the world written on her body.

The human body is not just a machine to be manipulated at will for any laudable purpose, but Word of God to be treated in all its aspects with the reverence one owes the Word of God and the Temple of the Holy Spirit.

Okay, I think I have this figured out

I think I have to use my e-mail to post on blogger, since something is wrong after I converted to new blogger.  Well, better than not at all!