No Fear: Reminding Ourselves that God is in Control
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We are constantly confronted with a specialized language in which every day terms assume politically charged overtones. Take the word ‘choice’. Before 1973 and Roe v. Wade, choice represented the liberty I can exercise according to my preferences and my level of autonomy. After that date, it assumes a whole universe of politically charged meaning, which has little to do with informed autonomous choice, and everything to do with strict adherence to a secular creed. Secular Humanism is a religion, and abortion is its sacrament.
The same goes for ‘reproductive rights’, which as G.K. Chesterton famously said, are neither about reproduction nor about rights. We continue on with ‘Women’s health care’. If we are truly addressing health care for women, how come we are not addressing heart disease, auto-immune illnesses, or diabetes? How does facilitating fertility suppression address the entire sphere of “Womens’ Health”? How about the kidnapping of the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’? In this decade they mean different things than they did in the ‘60s and ‘70s, with every aspect of life given a political slant, whether is it warranted or not.
We are not really talking about being pro- or anti- choice. A subjective choice, where all choices are equally good based on personal preference, is no choice at all. In G.K. Chesterton's words:’ when everyone is the exception to the rule, there is no rule”. The real object of the discussion is the federally financed and promoted destruction of over 1,000,000 human lives each year. The real object of the discussion on ‘intolerance’ and the liberal v. conservative debate involves a wholesale bid for the re-engineering of the family, the building block of society, to comply with the dictates of the current age.
We may want to decide where we stand on these issues.
Lavinia Spirito is the Founding Team Teaching Leader for Catholic Way Bible Study, currently distributed in over 42 states and internationally.
Though she grew up in Rome, Italy, Lavinia received her B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of Michigan; obtained her J.D. from The University of Kentucky College of Law; as well as a Masters in Theology from The Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. She is also Adjunct Lecturer for the Saint Meinrad Permanent Deacon Formation Program.
Lavinia prepares and delivers all the lectures for Catholic Way Bible Study, an in depth study of the Scriptures as applied to daily life. She travels and speaks nationally and internationally giving retreats, Priest Retreats, Parish Missions, and Days of Reflection.
She is co-host of “Real Living” a weekly podcast on Breadbox media on relevant issues facing today’s Catholics, as well as blogging and writing articles for various websites. Lavinia collaborates with Renewal Ministries in various ways, including id916. Finally she leads groups in pilgrimage to Rome, the Holy Land, and other interesting places.
She and her husband Michael live in Lexington, Kentucky and have two adult daughters.
