Last evening my wife and I dined with a couple I have known since high school. As we had not visited in some years,it was time to catch up on the news. Dinner began with the couple leading us in Grace, complete with them, and us, publicly blessing ourselves. For two hours we heard about their interesting children-one daughter and her husband living in the Hawaiian Islands who had become Hindus. The mother supported their quest for "spirituality". Another daughter had divorced and remarried after a year long marriage with no children. The mother had helped her acquire the forms to file an annulment, but when they arrived, the questions seemed personal and probing and the process would take too long. The daughter and her husband and child are weekly communicants at their parish. They receive Holy Communion each week to "set a good example for their daughter." The response from my wife and me? Nothing. This is the typical conversation we hear every time we go out with modern American "Catholics". Mr. Warren, what do you think the great scholar, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger, would have said in his "Little-Girl Voice"? - Manfred
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