tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post182430459366158273..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Rod Dreher: Why Catholicism is failing in AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-10044240520112384782015-06-27T21:33:51.286-04:002015-06-27T21:33:51.286-04:00JM,
Agreed. If I had an academic career to do ov...JM,<br /><br />Agreed. If I had an academic career to do over again, I might concentrate precisely on that area, which has become a minefield for Catholics. In fact, Catholic biblical studies, generally speaking, is a weak spot, an achilles heel, of contemporary Catholic intellectual life, just as homosexuality is the weak spot in contemporary Catholic moral sentiments.Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-74547060417274426352015-06-27T19:37:22.469-04:002015-06-27T19:37:22.469-04:00To a degree I am a sentimental fan of Ratzinger an...To a degree I am a sentimental fan of Ratzinger and some of his later work. But try reading his material around Vatican II, his 'Highlights' or his 'Introduction to Christianity,' and you realize his formative years were impacted by Modernism in ways that unfortunately lingered. The more I read and see the more I am convinced that Higher Criticism is far, far more bain than any sort of blessing for all the churches.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-25783844635699620052015-06-08T19:40:40.423-04:002015-06-08T19:40:40.423-04:00Raider Fan,
I've become aware over the years ...Raider Fan,<br /><br />I've become aware over the years of the former Cardinal Ratzinger's mixed past, starting with his being an assistant to Bp Frings at V2. In many ways, those who love Catholic tradition look back on his pontificate with fraternal affection, particularly because of the favor he showed toward the TLM. But there other ways in which certain deficiencies showed through, a symptom of which was his love for the cosmic evolutionary vision Teilhard de Chardin sets forth in his overheated imagination. <br /><br />Rowland, like many others, is enamoured of the fact that Ratzinger was Augustinian in outlook, as opposed to Thomist. There are certainly insights proper to that vision; but it is no substitute for a grounding in the Angelic Doctor promoted by Leo XIII. In fact, I think that the same weaknesses show in Rowland's writing, for all her insights.Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-52390684788759211142015-06-08T17:28:27.697-04:002015-06-08T17:28:27.697-04:00Dear Doc. That is a great summary of yours that wa...Dear Doc. That is a great summary of yours that was quoted.<br /><br />But as far as Bishop Emeritus Ratzinger goes, it was he who killed the Holy Office and it was he, and Pope Paul VI, that surrendered to liberalism and liberty just as the enemy was arriving as its greatest strength; it was Pope Paul Vi who told the Roman Clergy that while he could exercise discipline against the enemy <i>in extra</i> and <i>ad extra</i>, he preferred to be loved and it was Cardinal Ratzinger who was in favor of tearing down the bastions.<br /><br />It is all so maddening for those of us who have lived through this execrable ecclesiastical epoch for it could have been, should have been, different.<br /><br />It could have been different if we had not invited the enemy within the gates and remained silent about those who invited them in - and it was even worse than remaining silent about those allies of the enemy, for we elevated them to authority.<br /><br />Have y'all noticed the knee-jerk defense of anything the Bishop of Rome does? If he elevates an obvious heterodox individual or brings such a person into influence in Rome he is credited with Machiavellianism machinations; <i> He is keeping his enemies close.</i><br /><br />The next time you read that, ask the author of it when the Pope has raised a Catholic Traditionalist to a position of power/influence in the Prelature or in Rome and we all know that traditionalists are his enemy.<br /><br />Nothing much has changed in the Hierarchy since the revolution...<br /><br />And yet after all of the destruction they caused they continue to blame men like me and my ancestors who warred against the sons-of-bitches attacking the Faith.<br /><br />The sons and daughters of the Roman Catholic Church turned on their very Holy Mother and arrogated authority unto themselves- to a man they were servants of Satan - and yet to his day we are routinely apologising to those heretical bastids.<br /><br />Is this too churlish?<br /><br />Well, prepare to hear the love bombs soon being dropped on John Hus, that most miserable miscreant who preached violent revolution against The Roman Catholic Church. Yes, we are going to apologise to that man and seek to better understand - something.<br /><br />Can anyone think of another international organisation more determined to cultivate hatred of its past?Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-67416890812268786742015-06-08T09:50:27.529-04:002015-06-08T09:50:27.529-04:00Mr. D, has found safety in a tiny schismatic and h...Mr. D, has found safety in a tiny schismatic and heretical sanctuary the world is too indifferent about to try and destroy. He may as well be Amish.<br /><br />And, he is wrong to think about the Faith once delivered as having to do with marketing; by that accounting, Jesus was a miserable failure. <br /><br />Modernism has slain masculinity and our epicene ecclesiastics do not attract real men because they are too timorous about the Truth; <i> We do not want to offend.</i><br /><br />Only real Catholic men can present the face of Christ to the world and attract other real men and if the world doesn't accept that, to Hell with itMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com