Sam Miller is a prominent Jewish businessman. He is not Catholic. And yet he offers some sage advice to Catholics in a recent column.
Be proud, he tells us. Even in the face of injustice in the media, scandals in the Church, and a less than favorable popular public opinion of our priests and leaders: Be proud to be Catholic.
Miller gives us a much-needed reminder of the many good things going on in our Church. You’ll never hear it on MSNBC, but the Catholic Church gets a lot of things right.
“Do you know - the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to your Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand tothe American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars.
Your graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%, all at a cost to you. To the rest of the Americans it’s free.
The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. With an enrollment of 700,000 students.
The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people - not just Catholics - in the United States today.
But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country.”
Like most Catholic parents, I worry about what to tell my kids when negative news stories about our Church dominate the cable news channels and newspaper headlines. I worry about the kind of fortitude that will be required of them to remain faithful Catholics in coming generations.
But in his homily last weekend, my parish priest said it well when he reminded us all that the idea that “it’s not cool to Catholic” is not exactly a new one. The Church has been persecuted—even with death—for over 2,000 years.
To combat that, we need to focus on the positive, we need to be strong, and we do need to be proud. Thank you, Mr. Miller, our Jewish friend, for reminding us of that.
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Just as heresies don’t die, they only change names, so also persecution has never gone extinct. They come in different forms. While the Church in Africa is suffering persecution from the muslims (outsiders), the Church in Europe and America is equally not finding it easy (insiders). But we are all one. Let us pray for one another, appreciate what we have and be proud of who we are, our Jewish friend, Miller, said it all.
Ever since the foundation of the Church that is all believers of Christ the enemy has been at the door waiting to get in and start trouble remember its the few who are causing all of the trouble they are the ones who make the news please keep this in mind.
It’s wonderful to be supported by one of our “older brothers in faith”. Sadly, since the Catholic Church is the last hold out against the degenerate culture that rages we have become the last group that it is politically correct to attack.
Just as it took a Jew to write the best book about Ireland (trinity by Leon Uris), Sam Miller has whacked the nail squarely. hurrah !!! Even if we are only the least ugly girl at the dance, the New York Times should be advised thereof. G-d bless us all.
Well, I’ll be darned. When I saw the title, I thought you were referring to Jesus. Bet He’d want us to be proud to be Catholic’s too.
To all of my Jewish brothers and Sisters thank-you for taking a stand against evil and for the rest of you my hats off to you may God richly bless you all.
And these are just some of only the “material"benefits of the Catholic Church. In our hearts and minds Truth tells us that ALL the spiritual benefits necessary for salvation that lie within the Church are its real treasure for all humanity! That knowledge is where the fortitude to remain firm in out faith will come from! But our Jewish friend has done us a real favor in reminding the rest of the world how they benefit on a material level. Now we must pray ( the Rosary) that the world will come to believe the rest! And continue to “fight the good fight” with the Rosary as our weapon!
The article “Sam Miller on Catholics” contains false and defamatory information about Protestant ministers. See link:
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I am incredibly proud to be a Catholic Christian. When I feel the love and joy of the Holy Spirit, I don’t want to just hold onto to it and say I’m saved. I want to reach out and help change the world. To make it a better place. To do good works—not for the sake of works, but for the love of Our Lord and Savior. I tell my brethren: forgive Protestants when they say disparaging things about our faith. Just forgive them. Be better and rise above—and don’t look back. They will know we are Christians by our love and forgiveness. If they want to hold hatred in their hearts or condemnation, then that’s their choice. But for us, it’s about strength and honor.
Yeah… Catholics believe that their angry sky god is going to have the Jews tortured for not believing all that Jesus nonsense.
That’s something to be proud of, the worship of a hardcore anti-Semite.
Thank you for an very interesting article. There are always going to be good and bad in any organization, religion, government, etc. Just because one or two people do not act accordingly does not make the other million invalid. Stay strong and believe. It will just make them angrier that you will not walk away from your faith and faith is what makes us strong.
To all my Jewish brothers and sisters may God richly bless each and every one of you.
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