{"id":22587,"date":"2012-09-07T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=22587"},"modified":"2012-09-06T23:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T04:54:01","slug":"now-that-takes-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/now-that-takes-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That Takes Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Kathryn<\/a> wrote a post about “Stop Apologizing for Your Catholic Faith<\/a>“. \u00a0Well last night\u00a0Cardinal Dolan didn’t need to apologize as he walked into what is being called the most pro-abortion Democratic National Convention of all time and prayed openly for the protection of the unborn. What Cardinal Dolan did last night was to embody the spirit of the New\u00a0Evangelization. \u00a0Today more then ever we are charged with stepping out into the world and being a light in the darkness. \u00a0Jesus tells us,<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man \u2018against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one\u2019s enemies will be those of his household.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is\u00a0abundantly\u00a0clear if you were to see my Twitter stream or my Facebook News Feed during each night of the last two conventions. \u00a0Talking about faith and politics with a family member is never easy and coming from a culture that expects you to think one way make it that much harder. Thankfully my faith has embolden me to stand up for the truth in ways that I never thought that I could. \u00a0My faith and God’s graces have allowed me to speak with a confidence to those who oppose the truth and are blinded by the lies that the world tries to feed us. \u00a0Sometimes the hardest part of all of this is remembering to do it with love. For what good is it to win an\u00a0argument,\u00a0but to lose a soul. We may not all be ready to stand in front of a national audience in front of a\u00a0hostile\u00a0crowd. But\u00a0like Cardinal Dolan we must not be afraid to do must be done. We can not be afraid to go where we must go and to say what must be said. \u00a0Because honestly if we don’t who will?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Kathryn wrote a post about “Stop Apologizing for Your Catholic Faith“. \u00a0Well last night\u00a0Cardinal Dolan didn’t need to apologize as he walked into what is being called the most pro-abortion Democratic National Convention of all time and prayed openly for the protection of the unborn. What Cardinal Dolan did last night was to… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,90],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-faith-blog","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11946,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/repent-but-dont-forget-to-rejoice\/","url_meta":{"origin":22587,"position":0},"title":"Repent, but don’t forget to Rejoice","author":"Maria Huemmer","date":"February 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The season of Lent is here! 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