tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5818562139208858856..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Ad Multos Annos!!!Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30478275940860085172019-03-24T02:18:49.861+00:002019-03-24T02:18:49.861+00:00Perhaps the College of Cardinals or the bishops ha...Perhaps the College of Cardinals or the bishops have no authority in Scripture or Tradition to depose a Pope. Bishop Scheider explains this quite clearly. Is this the role of these Colleges? No. So let us not consider this further. But perhaps it is the role of the College of Cardinals and the bishops to define more clearly the role of the Supreme Pontiff and to put into place clear The Saint Bede Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02694483852852112838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90451654449511299862019-03-23T16:12:08.334+00:002019-03-23T16:12:08.334+00:00Surely the remarks about urinating in tents come f...Surely the remarks about urinating in tents come from Araby? Impoverished<br /> as Britain is now we don't live in tents, yet.JoeTownsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18271850806358024674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-183342932886413842019-03-23T15:08:29.749+00:002019-03-23T15:08:29.749+00:00It strikes me that we shouldn't really say tha...It strikes me that we shouldn't really say that Catholics believe 'the Pope is infallible', but rather than papal <i>teaching</i> is infallible under certain conditions. It is not the man but the teaching that is without error when a pope solemnly defines some point of the core content of the Apostolic Tradition. Of course, that means that in those circumstances the individual must beThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05174247888532190924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68080857862488693432019-03-23T09:48:25.156+00:002019-03-23T09:48:25.156+00:00I wonder what are these 'fortified self-certai...I wonder what are these 'fortified self-certainties' of which you write?<br />I have not known a previous pope to speak so much of the mistakes he has made, and to apologise for his errors.E sapelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09886268559214926797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88141110169764534522019-03-22T21:18:31.882+00:002019-03-22T21:18:31.882+00:00I agree. Taking the long view of history does not ...I agree. Taking the long view of history does not preclude taking prudent and courageous Catholic action within our sphere of influence, as you so admirably demonstrate, Father.Lady Jane Perduehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02816304333109576404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58276241416400302922019-03-22T20:37:55.537+00:002019-03-22T20:37:55.537+00:00Father,
I was always under the impression that th...Father,<br /><br />I was always under the impression that the famous "Enemies in the tent....." statement was uttered by the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson, talking about his rivals for the Senate seat in Texas.<br /><br />But, that doesn't mean he thought of it first.1569 Risinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17680321977918677689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30853643445935037322019-03-22T19:25:01.591+00:002019-03-22T19:25:01.591+00:00And still, no one deals with the elephant in the V...And still, no one deals with the elephant in the Vatican. Named Emeritus. Just pretend it is normal. Ignore the old man who can’t seem to find appropriate non-Papal garb or suitable off-site quarters in all of Rome.<br /><br />The heresy is not the point. I would expect nothing less under these conditions. Heresy is a symptom. It is not the core problem.<br /><br />Where is Emeritus Aquahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691722006352014613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14570067570089423922019-03-22T15:33:37.633+00:002019-03-22T15:33:37.633+00:00Yes. It is a very dangerous road to move from rec...Yes. It is a very dangerous road to move from recognizing that, in fact, the Emperor has no clothes, to no longer treating the Emperor as Emperor based on private judgment. His naked self will still have you dragged to prison.<br /><br />That doesn't mean that one has to sit around and do nothing or worst still complement his flabbiness on his choice of finery. Besides, those that so Lurker #59https://www.blogger.com/profile/00746580328026575323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54316009179840907652019-03-22T14:40:19.523+00:002019-03-22T14:40:19.523+00:00I wonder if those who believe Francis is not the p...I wonder if those who believe Francis is not the pope have any idea what would happen if he were to be declared such by his cohort. What, actually, would happen? How would yet another candidate be chosen? Would Francis be 'retired' or just told to get out? Would the cardinals elect another man just like him? Is the pool so tainted that we're better off with the devil we know?<br /><Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07452600815959751502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-83301403505412206742019-03-22T14:32:11.915+00:002019-03-22T14:32:11.915+00:00That English proverb may have had its origin in th...That English proverb may have had its origin in the vigorous language of the English bible, which unblushingly renders the word without asterisks: "him that pisseth against the wall" (1st Kings 14:10).<br /><br />However its more recent use is by that connoisseur of English proverbs, that pious American president, Lyndon B. Johnson: "It’s probably better to have him inside the tentfrjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.com