THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MODERN AGE IS FAITH IN GOD

The whole contrast that exists between the Middle Ages, which sought first causes, and the modern age, which pursues secondary causes, is exemplified in art: in the Middle Ages, no sculptor ever carved his name on a sculpture; and the reason was that he worked for God; and he acknowledged that it was God who gave him the ability to sculpt, and the mind of an artist; and when he left his work anonymously, it was God, the first cause, who brought the credit. Today, the sculptor carves his name on marble, because he works for man, and has forgotten the First Cause, the Cause of all causes, which is God. (... )

Medieval art is the art of a redeeming humanity. It is rooted in the Christian soul, on the shore of living waters, under the sky of theological virtues, and among the sweet marshmallows of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. For in the Middle Ages it was not a question of making Christian art, but of being Christian. If you were a Christian, your art was Christian. If you believed in eternal dogmas, your art would express eternal truths. The medieval artist used to say: "If you want to carve things of Christ, you must live with Christ." For medieval man, art required calm and meditation rather than excitement and feverish motorcycling. History tells us that the Blessed Angelic wept while painting the "Crucifixion" which is today in the Convent of San Marco in Florence.

(Fulton J. Sheen, from "Truth and Lies: A Prophetic Criticism of Modern Thought" Mimep editions)

BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

 Dostoevsky wrote that in a future day men would say there is no crime, there is no sin, there is no guilt, there is only hunger; then men will come crying and fawning at our feet saying to us, "Give us bread." Nothing will matter except the economic. 

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaughts of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Silent Shepherds: The time has come to defend and teach the true doctrine. Sooner or later, God will hold you accountable

 

BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

 

ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

"Dostoevsky wrote that in a future day men would say there is no crime, there is no sin, there is no guilt, there is only hunger; then men will come crying and fawning at our feet saying to us, "Give us bread." Nothing will matter except the economic."

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

MONS. FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

 

ABOUT TOLERANCE

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's... 

 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen 

THE CORRECT DEFINITION

 

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY, BY ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

 

A MESSAGE FROM MONS. FULTON J. SHEEN THAT COLLECTS TODAY AND VALIDITY

 

TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE

“There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's.”

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. 

Tolerant to Error?

"There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's..."

Bishop Fulton J Sheen

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