"When you mix politics and religion, you get politics."
— Evangelical minister, Rev. Gene Carlson of Wichita, Kansas, quoted in the New York Time Magazine of 28 October 2007
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This web log shall concern itself with the issue that Saint Arnulf of Metz struggled with his whole life: how to reconcile our Catholic faith with a life lived in the world.
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Saint Arnulf of Metz
Born near Nancy, to a Frankish noble family in 582 AD, Arnulf gave distinguished service at the Austrasian court under Theudebert II (595-612). Though a capable man, he was also very much a man of the world, renouncing his wife Doda after a quarrel and becoming known for being “full lusty and ready for all delights." At the age of thirty, repenting of his sinful ways, he wished to retire to a monastery where he could make his peace with God. Instead, in 614, he was made bishop of Metz, despite a layman at the time. Even while serving as a model bishop, Arnulf, along with with Saint Pippin of Landen, served as chief adviser to kings Clotaire the Great and Dagobert I. In 627 AD Arnulf was finally allowed to retire to a mountain site in the Vosges, to implement his lifelong resolution to become a hermit. His friend Romaric had preceded him to the mountains and had already established the monastery of Remiremont there. Arnulf settled there, and remained there until his death twelve years later.
Arnulf is known as the patron saint of brewing. His feast day is either July 18 or August 16.
Arnulf is known as the patron saint of brewing. His feast day is either July 18 or August 16.
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3 comments:
Being somewhat of an obtuse fellow, I'm not quite sure what to make of this. What was the context of his remark?
What he means is that political realities never yield to religious truth. This particular minister spent the last ten years trying to influence politics and has quit in disgust.
That's kind of what I suspected he meant.
I can relate to his disgust, as I myself have had a growing cynicism toward politics and politicians these past few years.
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