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John Allen skriver i dag interessant om hva som gj\u00f8r personer (her: biskoper) viktige for samfunnet og for sin tid. Det kan v\u00e6re ulike grunner, men han p\u00e5peker hvorfor \u00e9n amerikansk, katolsk biskop er viktig:<\/p>\n John Allen skriver i dag interessant om hva som gj\u00f8r personer (her: biskoper) viktige for samfunnet og for sin tid. Det kan v\u00e6re ulike grunner, men han p\u00e5peker hvorfor \u00e9n amerikansk, katolsk biskop er viktig:<\/p>\n
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, who illustrates yet another way a bishop can matter: As an evangelist, an opinion-maker, a writer and speaker. Usually seen as a strong conservative, Chaput can be polarizing because he takes clear positions and defends them with relish. He\u2019s consequential in somewhat the same way as politicians and pundits with bold views and the nerve not to pull their rhetorical punches: Love \u2018em or hate \u2018em, they\u2019re hard to ignore.<\/p>\n Sometimes accused of being a traditionalist, Chaput is actually a very 21st century bishop in at least one sense: Whatever national influence he wields has almost nothing to do with formal ecclesiastical power. He doesn\u2019t hold office in the bishops\u2019 conference, and certainly can\u2019t compete with Rigali as a Roman heavyweight. I mean no disrespect to Denver, especially since my wife and I now live there, but the mere fact of being the Archbishop of the Rockies is hardly sufficient to leave many people outside the Mountain Time Zone with baited breath awaiting his latest pronouncement.<\/p>\n … …. If you want a sound-bite to sum up Chaput\u2019s message, here\u2019s a recent epigram: \u201cThere\u2019s no more room in American life for easy or tepid faith.\u201d Like all such formulae, it\u2019s an invitation to debate: What exactly does that mean?<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n Allen skriver s\u00e5 et referat av en tale erkebiskop Chaput holdt i Houston 1. mars, p\u00e5 Houston Baptist University, der han bl.a. p\u00e5pekte at datidas f\u00f8rste katolske president gjorde en alvorlig feil for 50 \u00e5r siden, da han s\u00e5 veldig sterkt skilte mellom sin tro og konsekvensene den ville f\u00e5 i samfunnet. Og han begynte sin tale slik:<\/p>\n One of the ironies in my talk tonight is this. I\u2019m a Catholic bishop, speaking at a Baptist university in America\u2019s Protestant heartland. But I\u2019ve been welcomed with more warmth and friendship than I might find at a number of Catholic venues. This is a fact worth discussing. I’ll come back to it at the end …<\/p>\n I\u2019m here as a Catholic Christian and an American citizen — in that order. Both of these identities are important. They don\u2019t need to conflict. They are not, however, the same thing. … No nation, not even the one I love, has a right to my allegiance, or my silence, in matters that belong to God or that undermine the dignity of the human persons He created.<\/p>\n Fifty years ago this fall, in September 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for president, spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. … His speech left a lasting mark on American politics. It was sincere, compelling, articulate — and wrong. Not wrong about the patriotism of Catholics, but wrong about American history and very wrong about the role of religious faith in our nation\u2019s life. And he wasn\u2019t merely \u201cwrong.\u201d His Houston remarks profoundly undermined the place not just of Catholics, but of all religious believers, in America\u2019s public life and political conversation. Today, half a century later, we\u2019re paying for the damage. … … <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n Les resten av John Allens stykke her<\/a> – og hele erkebiskop Charles Chaputs tale i Houston her<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Allen skriver i dag interessant om hva som gj\u00f8r personer (her: biskoper) viktige for samfunnet og for sin tid. Det kan v\u00e6re ulike grunner, men han p\u00e5peker hvorfor \u00e9n amerikansk, katolsk biskop er viktig: Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, who illustrates yet another way a bishop can matter: As an evangelist, an opinion-maker, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}