{"id":33603,"date":"2016-07-15T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33603"},"modified":"2016-07-15T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:24:04","slug":"yielding-to-public-opinion-is-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/yielding-to-public-opinion-is-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"Yielding to public opinion is tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In business, in politics, and in fact, in the holy Church of Christ on earth, we are more governed by trends and the opinions of others than seeking the Way, the Truth, and the Life.\u00a0Dietrich von Hildebrand has something to say about this fact…<\/em><\/p>\n

“In general, however, the heads of Catholic institutions do not prohibit the teaching of heresies not because they have definitely lost their faith, but because they yield to public opinion and to fashion<\/strong>.\u00a0 They fear to be called ‘reactionaries.’<\/strong>\u00a0 They shudder at the thought of violating this allegedly holy academic freedom.\u00a0 Of these St. Augustine says: ‘Who is the hireling who, seeing the approach of the wolf, takes flight?\u00a0 He who seeks himself and does not seek what is of Jesus Christ; he who does not dare to frankly admonish the sinner (1 Tim. 5:20).\u00a0 See, someone has sinned, gravely sinned; he should be admonished, excluded from the Church.\u00a0 But, excluded from the Church, he will become its enemy and will try to ensnare it and harm it where he can.\u00a0 Now the hireling, the one who seeks himself and not what is of Jesus Christ, will be silent and will not give any admonition, in order not to lose what he seeks, namely the advantages of personal friendship, and in order to avoid the unpleasantness, worry and personal enmity<\/strong>.\u00a0 The wolf at that moment takes hold of the sheep to throttle them…You are silent O hireling, and do not admonish…Your silence is your flight.\u00a0 You are silent, you are afraid.\u00a0 Fear is the flight of the soul. (St. Augustine,\u00a0Tractatus in Joannem<\/i>, XLVI, 7-8)’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In business, in politics, and in fact, in the holy Church of Christ on earth, we are more governed by trends and the opinions of others than seeking the Way, the Truth, and the Life.\u00a0Dietrich von Hildebrand has something to say about this fact… “In general, however, the heads of Catholic institutions do not prohibit … Continue reading Yielding to public opinion is tragic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[31976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33604,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}