tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5323728821810130801..comments2024-03-28T12:26:03.686+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The Feast of our lady of Lourdes: for LatinistsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86960311059619004302020-02-12T12:06:24.240+00:002020-02-12T12:06:24.240+00:00Although I do like the apparent suggestion (by PM)...Although I do like the apparent suggestion (by PM) that being a 'skilled Latinist' could be (part of) a reason for someone's canonization - there may be some hope for us sinners yet! - I don't think the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has that particular quality high on its checklist.<br /><br />On the other hand: it was John Henry Newman who wrote: "<i>I have nothing Stephen v.B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10627264491316488533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70954089680418380582020-02-12T07:43:39.645+00:002020-02-12T07:43:39.645+00:00Given the fashion that has developed for canonisin...Given the fashion that has developed for canonising popes, I find it most perplexing that Leo XIII has not been. Not only was he a skilled Latinist, but he had very good theological judgement (his encyclicals are ageing very well, and witness his role in the Thomistic revival), and I know of no suggestion that he was anything other than a man of great personal holiness (there were none of Pius XIPMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25920773763797660812020-02-11T22:57:40.638+00:002020-02-11T22:57:40.638+00:00I rather enjoyed this. Thank you, Father.I rather enjoyed this. Thank you, Father.Irenaeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432088067981270937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62581764410101367512020-02-11T16:35:05.226+00:002020-02-11T16:35:05.226+00:00Dear Father. This is off topic but ABS thinks you ...Dear Father. This is off topic but ABS thinks you might find this useful when responding to sedevacantsis and the Benedict Is Still Pope crowd.<br /><br /><br /><br />“DOGMATIC FACTS. A dogmatic fact is one that has not been revealed, yet is so intimately connected with a doctrine of faith that without certain knowledge of the fact there can be no certain knowledge of the doctrine. For example, Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com