Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/01/13

We should rejoice at Ms. Eweida’s victory.  And if the UK had withdrawn from the European Human Rights Convention, as some anti-Europeans would like, she would not have won. 

It will happen, yes, I do not doubt it. As did abortion, at first from indulgent kindness – then as a legal right – now on demand (with or without a doctor’s rubber stamp). So too with the drip-drip-drip undoing of the Christian (and customary) understanding of marriage (as something more than a legal document binding on partners); after all, the world (and its significant other) now requires it. 

That the world will demand worldly things can be of no great surprise. And that the Catholic Church must oppose that sort of worldly whim also must not surprise; it alone had opposed divorce, as destructive to social life, it alone opposed destruction of the handicapped or unwanted, as offensive to human dignity, it alone opposes assisted self-destruction, as contrary to medical ethics. It has (for the most part) lost the struggle against the legalised choreographic partner changes that divorce entails; it won, in part only, a stay of execution on the infirm, the retarded or the discarded .. in Nazi Germany at least; it may well lose the struggle to maintain the sacred aspect to marriage between one man and one woman (under Christian Sacrament), just as it is likely to lose the struggle against a legalised right to assisted suicide .. yet that it must continue to oppose such ideologies as the world craves (in liberty to do as it pleases) is not itself a passing whim, it is integral to its very life – in witness to Christ.

I cannot believe that a heard recently a ‘senior’ Church of England spokesperson say that the Church must fit in with the views of the world, or present day society. I thought the Lord had told us that we should fight against the World, the flesh and the devil?