I enjoyed the essay and will, likely, enjoy the ensuing comments. I think that much of the "elite" class you mentioned were far less interested in Stephen the Prophet than they were in Stephen the Martyr. The hyperbolic eulogies about how he was sacrificed to appease the president are eye-rollingly bad. Based on the amount of money his show was losing every year, President Trump was a convenient scapegoat.
The fact that Mr. Colbert's views are in direct conflict with Catholic teaching is easily overlooked because those same views are shared by a large contingent of our Catholic brothers and sisters. Yes, of course, we are all sinners and I am firmly established in that group, too. As I repent of my judgmental nature, I do hope to see some of my beige brothers and sisters in line for Confession.
I appreciate you and your article. I enjoy your work in general. Yet, I can't help but wonder who is the 'we', the 'us' referred to and where the delineation takes place to becoming an 'elite'? Also, who is not part of 'the system or machine'?
"Ultimately, we need to be aware of this rhetorical move—this pretension that our elite Catholics are somehow just like us. They are entrenched in the system and part of the machine."
The main commonality and brotherhood I discern is that most of us can claim to belong to the sinners group. Lol 😆
Bro said bereft lmao
I enjoyed the essay and will, likely, enjoy the ensuing comments. I think that much of the "elite" class you mentioned were far less interested in Stephen the Prophet than they were in Stephen the Martyr. The hyperbolic eulogies about how he was sacrificed to appease the president are eye-rollingly bad. Based on the amount of money his show was losing every year, President Trump was a convenient scapegoat.
The fact that Mr. Colbert's views are in direct conflict with Catholic teaching is easily overlooked because those same views are shared by a large contingent of our Catholic brothers and sisters. Yes, of course, we are all sinners and I am firmly established in that group, too. As I repent of my judgmental nature, I do hope to see some of my beige brothers and sisters in line for Confession.
I appreciate you and your article. I enjoy your work in general. Yet, I can't help but wonder who is the 'we', the 'us' referred to and where the delineation takes place to becoming an 'elite'? Also, who is not part of 'the system or machine'?
"Ultimately, we need to be aware of this rhetorical move—this pretension that our elite Catholics are somehow just like us. They are entrenched in the system and part of the machine."
The main commonality and brotherhood I discern is that most of us can claim to belong to the sinners group. Lol 😆
My main problem is with people who are clearly upper class or clearly part of an institution denying that they are.
There’s nothing wrong with being a part of an institution or being upper class, but in the past the elites and the upper class didn’t hide themselves.
We knew exactly who they were and so when there were problems, the lower classes could critique them and push back.