tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1297886967163310774..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: BloggingFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63832383510885395522008-12-31T19:09:00.000+00:002008-12-31T19:09:00.000+00:00No Pope, of course, is bound by his predecessor. I...No Pope, of course, is bound by his predecessor. It is indisputable that the Church has changed the matter and/or form for the conferral of the Sacrament of Orders. <BR/>As you rightly write, the tradition of instruments was considered the form—I have it myself in a catechism of the mid 16th century. Pius XII made changes. Eucharist and Baptism one cannot tinker with much, (hence my worry over Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31237074333478042382008-12-30T09:30:00.000+00:002008-12-30T09:30:00.000+00:00What a wonderful argument - "Popes have granted th...What a wonderful argument - "Popes have granted the facility therefore they can grant it!" It is on a par with "definitions have been made therefore what is not obviously within the deposit of faith must be there". It sounds like the type of logic which greeted Newman when he visited Rome in about 1850 and which led to his now generally accepted essay on development being regarded with suspicion.Independenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08199774656279385253noreply@blogger.com