Hi Fr. Ivo, For a supurlo goenkar to get sincere blessings from a padre is real meaningful. Perhaps you did not read my last post to you. Here is a repeat posting since I appreciate your thoughts on this topic:
Every one had an opportunity to seek Fr. Ivo's opinion. My questions are not directly related to religion. Yet they are related to VALUES - social, religious, common-sense, etc.. So feel free to state that the issues that I am seeking some answers / comments have nothing to do with religion. To cut to the chase: Recently in the USA media the following alarming statistics was presented: Nearly 40% of US babies in 2006 were born outside of marriage (to single mothers). In 1980, this statistic was 18%. Some of the 40% single mothers will marry the father of their child with whom they are in a live-in relation. That is the good news about the 2006 statistic. The bad news: Given that half of marriages end in divorce, the 60% of the babies born to married couples will likely grow up with only one of their biological parent. Given this high statistics of these problems, I do not think the weak-link in the individual single mother and certainly not the baby who is the unintentional victim. I think this is "A System Failure". If in a corporation, 40% of their product was 'defective' (for want of a better term) and the other 60% would have a very high probability to fail, (for want of a better term), that corporation would be out of business, with no one buying their product. So Fr. Ivo what is your analysis of what and why is this going-on in American society? I will accept your response, "Aiz hanv itlo okupadd, goanet posts vachunk mhaka bilkull vell mellunknam.” :=)) Thanks in anticipation. Kind Regards, GL ------------- Fr. Ivo da C. Souza Thank you, Dr. Gilbert, you gave your readers "Theology made easy", though you are a scientist, an oncologist (as I can glean from your writings). You are a "khoro Goenkar". May God bless you! ----------- Gilbert Lawrence, >> Whatever happened to: There is one God and there are several ways to get to >> heaven? Of course to get to heaven, the soul has to live after death. Oops! >> did I say something heretical - like soul, life after death, heaven and God?
