tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519955364880984061.post9013350619341264769..comments2023-06-24T07:43:49.683-04:00Comments on Public Vigil: TruthMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05204113920771985325noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519955364880984061.post-6059510454991826172011-05-17T11:35:26.677-04:002011-05-17T11:35:26.677-04:00The new Archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gomez, spo...The new Archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gomez, spoke about the relationship of faith and reason in society in a commencement speech on May 14. Here are some quotes which appeared in a <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-gomez-tells-graduates-to-overcome-divorce-of-faith-and-reason/" rel="nofollow">CNA news article</a>:<br /><br />------<br /><br />He also noted that modern science, for all its important advances, had become the foundation for a world in which the question of God was no longer relevant.<br /><br />“We have eliminated God from all the processes by which we seek knowledge about ourselves and about our world,” he explained. “God is no longer a factor in our methods. Hence, God is nowhere to be found among our conclusions.”<br /><br />“We have allowed Almighty God to become eclipsed in our scientific and intellectual life — in higher education, and in our culture in general.”<br /><br />In such a world, he said, even believers were expected to live as if God did not exist.<br /><br />“You will realize very quickly,” he told the new graduates, “that in order to participate in the economic, political, and cultural life of our society, you will be asked to essentially conduct yourself as if you don't believe in God.” <br /><br />“You need to resist that temptation in your own lives,” said the archbishop. “But you also have an important duty to confront this culture with the power and the promise of the Gospel.” <br /><br />“Our world needs to be brought to a new remembrance of the God who created us and redeemed us,” Archbishop Gomez stated. “You must promote a new dialogue of reconciliation between faith and reason.” <br /><br />This reconciliation, he explained, is an urgent task in a world that is quickly acquiring new technological abilities, while losing touch with its moral sense. <br /><br />“We are building a world where faith and life are completely separated,” he warned. “Where knowledge and technical ability are separated from ethics and morality. Where power is divorced from responsibility.” <br /><br />He noted that the modern scientific concept of reason “can find no reason to defend the weak, the unborn, or the human embryo.” This “self-limited” and exclusively practical form of reason “can find no reason, no value, in a person born with disabilities.”Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05204113920771985325noreply@blogger.com