tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post3361295667510075356..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Antithesis vs. Consensus: Priests for the FutureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-9006393064224740622012-05-10T17:24:47.007-04:002012-05-10T17:24:47.007-04:00Ralph,
I'm inclined to accept the trad interp...Ralph,<br /><br />I'm inclined to accept the trad interpretation. Pope Paul VI was known for his Hamlet like character(described as such by Bl. John XXIII no less!) It seems in keeping with what we know about his character that he would lament the auto-destruction of the Church but not actually do anything about it.Kevin B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-38881312440888358522012-05-09T14:15:50.603-04:002012-05-09T14:15:50.603-04:00"as Paul VI himself noted, have turned out to..."as Paul VI himself noted, have turned out to be often closer to the "smoke of Satan" infiltrating the Church."<br /><br />I have a suspicion that Pope Paul's powers of observation and analysis have been given too much credit because of this famous quotation. It is quite possible that he meant that the liberal reforms he always indulged and occasionally championed were meeting resistance by conservative sources that somehow had not been swept away by the V2 tsunami of aggiornamento -- and it was THAT resistance which was Satan's smoke. I used to accept the trad interpretation of this remark: that it is evidence of his regret for earlier support of the modernist surge within the Church. But as time has gone on that interpretation has come to seem little more than wishful thinking: I see no clear evidence that Paul EVER repudiated, or even regretted, his support of modernism. So I have to ask, what smoke? what Satan?Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.com