Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
A few points - The US has a constitution that requires the state to neither promote or inhibit any religion. Unless the state allowed every religious denomination to take part (my guess would be thousands in New York) it would be favouring a selected subset. Secondly the mayor did not prevent religious leaders from holding their own commemorations in their own buildings.
ReplyDeleteLastly, why do Christian view finding a twisted cross symbolic? If they had have found steel girders like a crescent moon, would they have said, "all praise to Allah". No it would have reminded them who was behind the attack. Why treat a cross differently?
Michael