A Clarification & Apology

In my last post, I made a point that was incorrectly understood. I blame myself for quickly writing my post and not being more clear. I want to clarify this point, as I offended someone that I was trying to stick up for and to herald as someone that puts herself out there and defends the faith on a daily basis.

Here is the part of the post in question:

Again, I don't blame Danielle Bean, she is simply explaining how her Faith has been distorted and lost to the proud and haughty hands of others. The True Presence has been hidden by those who are more interested in form over substance. We must storm against the eradication of truth and the distortion of The Faith. We must have Priests, the faithful, and especially EMHC stand up and say, "I want to do what is right for the Lord, I want to reclaim reverence for the True Presence!"

Now, there is a reason why I capitalized Faith, and I tried to make a precise nuanced point, but it was lost on most readers. Unfortunately, it was also confusing to the person I was talking about and in a most egregious way.

I did not mean that Ms. Bean's faith, as in her inter-personal faith, was lost. Instead I capitalized Faith, meaning the CATHOLIC Faith, hence the capitalization. What I meant could be better written as such:

I don't blame Danielle Bean, she is simply explaining how the Catholic Faith has been distorted and confused by the proud and haughty hands of others.

Now I don't expect Danielle to know me, or know what I meant. I am sure she found my blog because it was linked to hers. Yet, I am sure most of my readers know that I would never imagine to pretend that I could know someone's heart or their inter-personal belief. I would never say that someone's faith was shaken, lost, distorted, or anything even remotely similar. I don't know if this is enough to satisfy Ms. Bean, but I haven't had anyone else write me that was upset with this post, so it was a tad shocking to see her comment. In fact, while writing this post I thought to myself, "The only person that might actually appreciate this post is Danielle herself." So when I saw her comment, I was taken aback. I re-read the post and realized why the mistake occurred, and that it was due to my sloppy writing.

So to Ms. Bean, I apologize. I am sorry for even remotely insinuating anything about her personal faith. It truly was due to the way I worded it, and in the way that I tried to make a "clever" point through capitalization. Honestly, if I wanted to attack someone, I would be much, much more direct than that. I feel horrible that someone that is such a stalwart and strong defender of the faith like Ms. Bean was thrown into this controversy due to my klutzy wording.

For others, as I have said, I think you know that I do not operate in such a backhanded way. If I had a problem with someone, or something, I would be much more direct than to couch a slam in some cryptic post. Again though, I would never pretend to know or think that I could judge someone's heart, let alone their inter-personal faith. So I am sorry for my poor choice of words, Danielle Bean exposes her soul on a daily basis on her blog, and doesn't need me commenting on it. I hope that everyone can see that I never meant to attack her, and in fact I was trying to hold her up as someone that is a humble and contemplative servant of the Lord. She is a very gracious and pious witness to the Faith.

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