tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883970092765312318.post5526215808605382972..comments2024-03-29T00:01:27.290-06:00Comments on fountains of home: What To Do When You Lose Faith in PoliticsChristy from fountains of homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11130888193737436970noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883970092765312318.post-41846545620929107252016-04-26T16:15:16.822-06:002016-04-26T16:15:16.822-06:00Thanks for writing this. Lately I have felt a re...Thanks for writing this. Lately I have felt a real burn out. Like sometimes you read so much bad news, that it starts to wear at your faith and hope. Reading this helped. Thanks! Loveisneverdefeatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00054362615983207023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883970092765312318.post-88797555713930182882016-04-26T12:07:20.541-06:002016-04-26T12:07:20.541-06:00Christy, thank you for this call to action! I real...Christy, thank you for this call to action! I really like how you bring up working at the local level, because it is really important that we address issues when they come up in our communities! And that you mention prayer. I think a lot of times, we can think that prayer is too passive of an approach, but really, that's where all of our political activism needs to start! We can't sit with our Rosaries indefinitely and refuse to do anything else regarding politics (unless that's our vocation in a convent or monastery), but we definitely cannot look down on the importance and value of prayer. <br /><br />Another thing that I would mention is kind of a jumping-off of your final point, on working for peace in the family-work for peace and collaboration among those with whom you disagree. This really hit me over the past couple of years, because I noticed that many times, Catholics who are into politics can generalize and get very negative and even turn against each other! (I used to do this a lot) I have friends who are super conservative and think that anything connected to liberals or Democrats is evil, and I have friends who are a bit more liberal who think that Republicans and conservatives are stuffy rich kids who don't care about the poor. I've found it helpful, for me, to drop the preconceived stereotypes and just talk with other Catholics about the basic values at stake and how we can implement them, because working together on common concerns is a lot more beneficial than just fighting each other all the time. AnneMariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13462442204217572325noreply@blogger.com