tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post481673518116659532..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Where's the Devil's Advocate on the proposed canonizations?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-90535359209266535972013-07-12T13:25:42.903-04:002013-07-12T13:25:42.903-04:00Haven't you folks heard? We are all saints! ...Haven't you folks heard? We are all saints! What's the prob, Bob?Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-73256188882189653752013-07-11T20:02:03.477-04:002013-07-11T20:02:03.477-04:00Dare I ask. Are we sure that canonizations are de ...Dare I ask. Are we sure that canonizations are de fide?<br /><br />Donna Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-82767994008462579362013-07-11T14:02:25.564-04:002013-07-11T14:02:25.564-04:00Even The Brick By Brick Bund was skeptical about t...Even The Brick By Brick Bund was skeptical about the new process and new definitions (and what day in the V2 life of the Church is worth living without some novelty being introduced?);<br /><br /><i>At the time of the beatification of John Paul II I wondered aloud if we weren’t seeing a shift in the criteria for what is called “heroic virtue”. I wasn’t suggesting that John Paul wasn’t heroically virtuous, by the way. But I get a sense, in recent commentary, that what has always been understood as “heroicity” in the practice of the virtues a Christian must manifest hasn’t been somewhat undercut.<br /><br />As I learned in the Studium conducted by the Congregation for Causes of Saints for future or potential postulators, et al., a virtue is practiced to a heroic degree under ordinary circumstances when it is practiced over a long portion of the person’s life and to the end with perseverance till death. It can also be heroic when the circumstances of life are such that that most people fail...</i><br /><br />And, of course, it was the Focolare (Ecumenism on LSD) Movement that, in advance, organised the <i>spontaneous</i> cries of Santo Subito at Pope John Paul Ii's funeral that everyone, from he who abdicated to The Brick By Brick Bund, routinely describe as a spontaeous act.<br /><br />C'est la vieMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com