tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6890722467605166966..comments2024-03-18T20:38:40.751+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Lay PowerFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15445156786746564342015-11-02T01:34:14.352+00:002015-11-02T01:34:14.352+00:00I thought until now that the pope's manner has...I thought until now that the pope's manner has little to do with his cultural origins. <br />I thought that he is an ideologue, someone to whom his not so humble goal justifies the means used to achieve it. The end is nothing less than peace on earth, happy mother Gaia, social justice, one deity worshipped by all in unity. <br /><br />All obstacles on the path to that goal need to be smashed,Dorota Mosiewicz-Patalashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16621481154560728878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48661585625018627082015-11-01T15:27:05.967+00:002015-11-01T15:27:05.967+00:00We, the laity, are still reeling from the realizat...We, the laity, are still reeling from the realization that the rumors were indeed true, and our church is full of homosexuals who hate the church and have made great progress in dismantling it. <br />But just as scandalizing, is what is happening TODAY. Today is the day, that we will wait for Cardinals, Bishops, priests, deacons, faithful religious, theologians, to say the H word loudly, boldly,Kathleen1031https://www.blogger.com/profile/10201084623185206141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81287520574655742002015-11-01T12:44:42.218+00:002015-11-01T12:44:42.218+00:00Mark Wuack: Thank you for that. There have been ...Mark Wuack: Thank you for that. There have been some negative things said about Cardinal Dolan but lately he has risen immensely in my estimation.Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56801146629664662452015-11-01T12:21:03.644+00:002015-11-01T12:21:03.644+00:00Couldn't agree more about liberal clergy and c...Couldn't agree more about liberal clergy and clericalism. One notorious deacon who spends his time mouthing off about traditionalist priests on Twitter, recently referred to clergy who were publicly questioning various papal insults as 'the staff'. You don't he said, expect the paid staff to speak out against their masters. He also referred to non-clergy as 'junior members of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12906533030684564728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-34007899940949614112015-11-01T12:20:47.699+00:002015-11-01T12:20:47.699+00:00Couldn't agree more about liberal clergy and c...Couldn't agree more about liberal clergy and clericalism. One notorious deacon who spends his time mouthing off about traditionalist priests on Twitter, recently referred to clergy who were publicly questioning various papal insults as 'the staff'. You don't he said, expect the paid staff to speak out against their masters. He also referred to non-clergy as 'junior members of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12906533030684564728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-32474109627200491832015-10-31T23:47:35.002+00:002015-10-31T23:47:35.002+00:00I agree Father, There has been a substantial lay b...I agree Father, There has been a substantial lay back-lash against this Synod.<br /><br />This is partly because the means, the internet, is there and partly because the clergy are silent. A gap is being filled.<br /><br />At Mass for years now all around me have been Catholic families at 1.8 reproduction rate. Some occasionally at Mass, (but not Holy Days of obligation of course) and Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-78123388219421673352015-10-31T22:04:02.097+00:002015-10-31T22:04:02.097+00:00I did not ask him to repeat it as I was a bit take...I did not ask him to repeat it as I was a bit taken aback when he said it and I am therefore not absolutely sure that I heard him correctly but I THINK that a member of the clergy (I leave his status deliberately vague) said to me recently that if Francis were minded to admit the divorced and remarried to Communion, God would make sure that he did not survive long enough to put pen to paper.Highland Cathedralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519428794618769856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-78409088644592401032015-10-31T18:13:50.793+00:002015-10-31T18:13:50.793+00:00Cardinal Dolan's words go a long way to explai...Cardinal Dolan's words go a long way to explaining the animus that Fr Hunwicke notes. One wonders at the all too obvious hatred among some for the very notion of normality:<br /><br />http://www.cny.org/stories/Report-on-the-Synod,13240<br /><br /><b>"Can I suggest as well that there is now a new minority in the world and even in the Church? I am thinking of those who, relying on God’s mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12847411975641738898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76899800658448643992015-10-31T16:01:04.252+00:002015-10-31T16:01:04.252+00:00Yes, Father, I too am struck by the stark differen...Yes, Father, I too am struck by the stark difference in approach and manner of Pope Francis, from that of Pope Benedict. While the uninformed initially railed about the ‘PanzerKardinal’ and ‘God’s Rottweiler’, those who really knew then-Cardinal Ratzinger spoke about his gentle and gentlemanly manner, his humility and courtesy.<br /><br />For so many of us, he soon became ‘Our German Shepherd’ – GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68682525144836168342015-10-31T16:00:03.671+00:002015-10-31T16:00:03.671+00:00I'm not sure what exactly supreme, immediate a...I'm not sure what exactly supreme, immediate and universal jurisdiction means. But we may find out, and I would bet it would be informed in no small measure by this from Paul VI<br />http://jloughnan.tripod.com/pvi2lefebvre.htmStephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833345391579579562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43051408812356713102015-10-31T15:32:07.364+00:002015-10-31T15:32:07.364+00:00Father,i love your writings and this last one made...Father,i love your writings and this last one made me smile!How long will this pontificate last?As long as The Holy Ghost allows is ,i think,the answer.I continue to pray for the Bishop of Rome.Keep writing Father.God bless.philipjohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128964006463059159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-46727181865069110672015-10-31T15:18:31.362+00:002015-10-31T15:18:31.362+00:00I cannot speak for the Catholic experience in Lat...I cannot speak for the Catholic experience in Latin American in general, still less of the Argentinian experience in particular as I am an American raised in Mexico and having lots of dealings with clergy and laity in California. I report what I have seen myself and heard from the Mexican people here.<br /><br />Mexican clergy, even (and perhaps especially) those of humble origins, tend to Tamquamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17362772766116096557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74337073295401999792015-10-31T14:49:23.637+00:002015-10-31T14:49:23.637+00:00Dear Father, you observe (rightly) ..."so man...Dear Father, you observe (rightly) ..."so many of us, clergy and layfolk, bloggers and blogreaders, simply do not know how to understand and interpret the endlessly unkind expressions which flow from the os Petri."<br /><br />My own belief is that Bergolio ululates a kind of South American theological version of the late Jelly-Roll Morton's and Louie Armstrong's 'scat'Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19333317538317376212015-10-31T12:36:48.777+00:002015-10-31T12:36:48.777+00:00Now the Synod is over it is difficult not to belie...Now the Synod is over it is difficult not to believe that his Holiness Pope Francis has an agenda to change the church in a certain way and he may sincerely believe in this and believe it to be correct. However what the Synod has revealed is the means he is prepared to use to force this agenda. Perhaps that is how things are done in South America but it does look like using the end to justify Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.com