tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post3587245303676742485..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: All we really want is cool, clear water ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-29848952690792817512014-12-06T11:46:13.012-05:002014-12-06T11:46:13.012-05:00Observe: cool, clear water, for a change...
http:...Observe: cool, clear water, for a change...<br /><br />http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/3554/pope_warns_against_glossing_over_the_differences_in_ecumenical_dialogue_at_the_expense_of_the_truth.aspxJohannes de Silentionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-19611339440876892842014-12-06T07:56:25.326-05:002014-12-06T07:56:25.326-05:00I certainly got the irony, reading his words.
Tha...I certainly got the irony, reading his words.<br /><br />Thanks, NCPertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-91762885880193221942014-12-06T01:08:59.011-05:002014-12-06T01:08:59.011-05:00You do realize Scola is kind of firing a warning s...You do realize Scola is kind of firing a warning shot, right? This is as harsh and ironic a criticism as a Ciellino would do in public...New Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118576661605931910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-89771725034482268522014-12-05T22:06:52.413-05:002014-12-05T22:06:52.413-05:00Thank you for echoing the thoughts of so many othe...Thank you for echoing the thoughts of so many others.<br /><br />Over at CT R.R. Reno has a long piece on Francis. It is capped with this sidebar item: "Westmont College president Gayle Beebe said, 'I find in him a remarkable capacity to recognize people who have put their faith in Christ differently.' He added, 'The focus is on Christ, not on the way churches construct that understanding. I hope that can be our focus as well.'"<br /><br />Rather incredible statement there in a magazine that is supposed to be concerned with doctrinal truth. But what is truth, right? A commentator says this, which captures for me the obvious problem that belies all that Reno writes:<br /> <br />"Imagine a pope liked more by non-Catholics and Catholics that don’t practice the faith than devout Catholics that actually go to Mass and try to live according to the dictates of the Catholic Church. That my friend is this latest pope. Sad and depressing, but this too shall pass."<br /><br />Right now I think Francis is as demoralizing a phenomenon in a different sense as the abusive priest scandal has been. The latter was a moral crisis, but this one is a doctrinal one. Now laymen can't count on the institutional Church for transparency or integrity on either score it appears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com