tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post7954472816345662350..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Is Weigel throwing in the towel, admitting failure?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-77191748998220743642013-08-31T20:41:03.105-04:002013-08-31T20:41:03.105-04:00A POET!! LOVE it!! ;)
A POET!! LOVE it!! ;)<br />Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-2216656940970591742013-08-31T01:18:59.884-04:002013-08-31T01:18:59.884-04:00
When white smoke from the chimney rises,
And Di...<br />When white smoke from the chimney rises,<br /> And Dick the journalist blows his nail,<br />And Trads brace themselves withal,<br /> For bad news shrieks within the gale,<br />When blood is curdled and ways be foul,<br />Then nightly sings the staring owl,<br /> Cath-lick;<br />E-vange, an absurd note,<br />While greasy George doth keel the pot.<br /><br />Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-70065191282124485302013-08-31T01:16:17.307-04:002013-08-31T01:16:17.307-04:00Hmm, a new pope -- the first from South America --...Hmm, a new pope -- the first from South America -- is elected in March 2013. Five months later, the eminent gentleman-scribbler of the upper crust block of neo-Cath Grub Street ponders a question from a rancher feller way out in the tall grass, and is moved to the conclusion that los estados unidos may indeed be Satan gordo grande. Hark! T’is the Dance of the Satraps, traipsing through another ceremonial Chinese firedrill.<br /><br />Who believes that FT was ever anything more than a prestigious (because adequately funded) resume-fattening service for on-the-make academics? Who believes that RJN was much more than a guy who really enjoyed being the editor of a prestigious academic journal, and the honored attendee of really swanky cocktail parties at which important people pretended to pay rapt attention to his portentous patter? Who believes that ANY of it was EVER about the edification of a presumptively religiously informed public square?<br /><br />Well those are really nice things to have wished for. Personally, I didn’t buy it from RJN then, and I’m not about to buy it from Weigel now. To me, this is about Prince George realizing a little faster than the rest of his deliberative colleagues that Neo-Cath Neo-Con Yankee Doodle Catholicism won’t cut it with the New Guy: time to re-program the grovel-o-matic supplication device. What will be next for Our Boy? Maybe the definitive biography of Jorge Mario Bergoglio?<br /><br />Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-67823410572459057312013-08-30T22:59:00.281-04:002013-08-30T22:59:00.281-04:00" ... I know he knows he is being dishonest ...." ... I know he knows he is being dishonest ..."<br /><br />Isn't that maddening. One of my friends recently met him at a big to-do in the Capital. When I asked him what George Weigel was like, my friend replied, with a laugh, "He thinks that everything he has to say is very important. He has an extremely inflated sense of his own importance." <br /><br />It's like a pathology, I suppose.Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-36357985667952448792013-08-30T22:38:55.734-04:002013-08-30T22:38:55.734-04:00Kevin,
Maybe the Weigel's next recension will...Kevin,<br /><br />Maybe the Weigel's next recension will be "Emergent Church Catholicism." =)Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-21410623001921975692013-08-30T09:08:05.963-04:002013-08-30T09:08:05.963-04:00The founders were doing politics not theology...
...<i> The founders were doing politics not theology...</i><br /><br />Wrong on two counts. Their politics derived from their theology which was Calvinistic and which rejected Jesus as King and which was opposed to the Catholic Church and their Calvinistic protestantism was suffused with Judaising heresies to the point where they thought they could establish Heaven on earth - thus, the city on the hill ideology.<br /><br />Of course this sort of politics is in direct opposition to Catholic Doctrine and so I am disgusted by Mr Weigel's constant defense of the heresy of Americanism.<br /><br />He is too intelligent and well read not to know about the encyclicals of Pope Leo XII and so of what value is it to read one so intellectually duplicitous?<br /><br />I know he is being dishonest and I know he knows he is being dishonest on this point; shamefulMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-4411232211465198912013-08-29T21:24:21.349-04:002013-08-29T21:24:21.349-04:00I called it Weigel "tapping out" on my f...I called it Weigel "tapping out" on my facebook page. Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but I think this might be the start of a different emphasis for Weigel. <br /><br />Now I wonder what "Evangelical Catholicism" will do, considering the political undertones that project had.Kevin Tierneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-26639012932863129412013-08-28T09:57:10.953-04:002013-08-28T09:57:10.953-04:00Also telling: not a single mention of Pope Francis...Also telling: not a single mention of Pope Francis?! And that from Weigel?... Holy cow.JFMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05496819581817926605noreply@blogger.com