tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post188935486638030090..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Failure of executive power in the Church: from John XXIII to John Paul IIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-86152004312326749392016-01-23T21:26:28.324-05:002016-01-23T21:26:28.324-05:00I hope this is not a surprise to anyone. I am 61, ...I hope this is not a surprise to anyone. I am 61, I don't remember a "good" Pope.<br /><br /><br />KarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-8314883652273041612016-01-23T15:06:17.670-05:002016-01-23T15:06:17.670-05:00Thank you John L for pointing out the absurdity of...Thank you John L for pointing out the absurdity of the proposition that the most powerful man in the Church somehow always manages to fail to exercise power.<br /><br />So called "failures to act" are, no less than actions, the products of decisions. A pope, even one who has benefitted from feverish efforts at canonization, should be called to account for his decisions, but never is, because ultramontanism doth make cowards of us all.Chuck Martelowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-7181527822380718622016-01-23T11:24:05.344-05:002016-01-23T11:24:05.344-05:00The actions of Paul VI that the author describes a...The actions of Paul VI that the author describes are not failures to exercise authority at all, but exercises of it; they were just exercises that betrayed the Church and those loyal to it. John Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12689601844788629693noreply@blogger.com