tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post3641001466645048691..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: The McCarthyism of Liberal Catholic ElitesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-49345502104788926732015-10-29T09:47:46.381-04:002015-10-29T09:47:46.381-04:00These men are a disgrace. I have long thought tha...These men are a disgrace. I have long thought that Fr. Martin in particular is a weasel and dangerous. He makes me sick.Not That Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14793694853324262365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-73118566790418749972015-10-29T07:42:46.436-04:002015-10-29T07:42:46.436-04:00Josef Pieper, in a chapter on "The 'Intel...Josef Pieper, in a chapter on "The 'Intellectual' and the Modern Church" in <i>Problems of Modern Faith</i>, addresses this very issue. <br /><br />First is the issue of <i>credentials.</i> "Critical detachment" may <i>disqualify</i> the expert. In fact, the New Testament mentions two groups who have difficulty understanding the essential "facts of life": the "wise," from whom the truth is actually "hidden" (cf. 1 Cor. 1ff), and the wealthy, which, "irritating as the fact may be, probably refers to members of the 'Establishment'."<br /><br />Pieper goes on to mention a number of other issues, perhaps the most important of which is that "the truly successful innovators have been the <i>saints,</i> in other words human beings in whom the passionate critique of existing conditions was combined with a totally selfless integration into the institutional hierarchy of the Church." He mentions Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, Charles de Foucauld, etc.<br /><br />Not only are the current innovators of the "synodal church" spiritually blind members of the "establishment," they are invested over their heads, not in selfless loyalty to the institutional Church, but in legitimating their dissent from it, not to mention in many cases their justification and mainstreaming of their own gay lifestyles. These "synodal" reformers of the church haven't a leg on which to stand.Sheldonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-45255040195373465192015-10-29T07:31:41.028-04:002015-10-29T07:31:41.028-04:00What these smug, liberal, dissenting signatories w...What these smug, liberal, dissenting signatories write about Douthat describes THEMSELVES perfectly:<br /><br />"Aside from the fact that [we have] no ... qualifications [of fidelity or spiritual discernment] for writing on the subject, the problem with [our] article and other recent statements is [our] view of Catholicism as unapologetically subject to a politically partisan narrative that has very little to do with what Catholicism really is."<br /><br />Exactly. What more needs to be said? The case is closed.<br /><br />Sheldonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-11362080068376113202015-10-27T22:48:20.422-04:002015-10-27T22:48:20.422-04:00Funny. What happened to "empowering the laity...Funny. What happened to "empowering the laity" and "there's no hierarchy" and "we're all equals" and "the smell of sheep dip" and all that man of the people stuff?<br /><br />Sounds like Douthat wandered off the New York Times plantation and started to make a little too much noise for the "you don't even read Italian!" crowd. Libs love the vernacular as long as its HaugenesqueThe Ghost of Tyburnnoreply@blogger.com