tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4428159888172432256..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: A necessary pedantryFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68846037861019370332019-09-01T23:27:38.027+01:002019-09-01T23:27:38.027+01:00Dear Father. ABS lives in Wellington, Florida wher...Dear Father. ABS lives in Wellington, Florida where, once again, a storm generated in Africa is threatening us poor innocent white Catholic men but trying and get the media to focus on that international geographical racism just doesn't work.<br /><br />However. we are talking about names and, so, this must be said:<br /><br />It is stupid to designate the center of a Harricain (that's Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39833501667165451362019-08-31T21:31:16.036+01:002019-08-31T21:31:16.036+01:00Dear Father. The highly intelligent and redoubtabl...Dear Father. The highly intelligent and redoubtable Fr. Joseph C. Fenton (for a score of years he was the great editor of The American Ecclesiastical Review) made the point that it is only The Catholic Church that is the Kingdom of God and al else is the Kingdom of Satan.<br /><br />He was also wise enough to observe that it is in The Catholic Church alone that Jesus Christ dwells.<br /><br />It Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17227644526855974562019-08-31T18:22:16.357+01:002019-08-31T18:22:16.357+01:00Some people say "the Church" without qua...Some people say "the Church" without qualification when they mean the Catholic Church (in communion with the Roman Pontiff). I do that, mostly. But I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "the Church" to mean the Latin Church -- certainly not anyone who was aware that there are non-Latin rites. Andrew Maltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088609968698636418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14838952368180338162019-08-31T16:18:17.392+01:002019-08-31T16:18:17.392+01:00I suspect that, in a sense, it cuts both ways, Fat...I suspect that, in a sense, it cuts both ways, Father. In mid-century Ireland we were accustomed to view all non-Catholic Christians as ‘Protestant’ – Cof I, Cof E, Methodist, Presbyterian and especially the Rev. Ian Paisley - who was termed a ‘Black’ Protestant…<br /><br />But harking back to Mr. Chesterton and his “Democracy of the Dead”, I fear many Catholics of today have little understandingGORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63200090945354210692019-08-31T16:01:05.982+01:002019-08-31T16:01:05.982+01:00One of the good things about the spread of the var...One of the good things about the spread of the various Eastern Rites is that now Latin Rite kids have more opportunity to be exposed to the existence of different eparchies, etc. This stuff was very theoretical to me, when I was a kid. But today, we see stuff on EWTN, there are podcasts, and the local Maronite Catholics have a big church festival every year.<br /><br />Of course, it would still Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58421731710588902142019-08-31T13:51:25.901+01:002019-08-31T13:51:25.901+01:00Or sometimes we confuse the Church with "her ...Or sometimes we confuse the Church with "her personnel" (an expression of Maritain). When a churchman speaks it is often not the Church who is speaking, but himself. This applies also to the Pope. Yes, he can really bind the Church and speak definitively in her name. But very often she is not speaking through him. Very often it is not --to shift gears-- is is *not* "Peter is Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.com