a great perspective on this feast of Thanksgiving<\/a>.\u00a0 How can I, a Catholic, celebrate the pilgrims the way I do?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 One, because I reject the post-modern rewriting of history that says all evil is the result of white, European heterosexual Christians.\u00a0 Second, because I realize that the pilgrims were my brothers and sisters in Christ, who were reaching back through a tradition of thanksgiving that is rooted in the Judeo-Christian heritage, even if it was based on many things they had rejected in their move away from their Catholic roots.\u00a0 Eucharist, after all, means \u2018thanksgiving.\u2019\u00a0 We needn\u2019t be bludgeoned by the revision of history that says we got thanksgiving from the pagan, the non-Christian, the eco-green earth worshipper.\u00a0 The feast as we have it is rooted in that most wonderful and civilizing traditions, the Judeo-Christian Western tradition.\u00a0 Great read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As usual, Fr. Longenecker offers a great perspective on this feast of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 How can I, a Catholic, celebrate the pilgrims the way I do?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 One, because I reject the post-modern rewriting of history that says all evil is the result of white, European heterosexual Christians.\u00a0 Second, because I realize that the pilgrims were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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