tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8086522905273221736..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: IS THERE ANYTHING NEW TO SAY ABOUT VATICAN II? YES!! (2)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49614615475406848152014-08-17T18:22:52.131+01:002014-08-17T18:22:52.131+01:00"Could not that passage from GS be directed a..."Could not that passage from GS be directed at any 20th century political ideology that took power in Europe?"<br /><br />It arguably could, and should.<br /><br />The Church exists to proclaim the gospel, to bring us to salvation, and to help us live the love of God and neighbor that Jesus proclaims the sum of the Law and the Prophets.<br /><br />The Church does not primarily exist to rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58465868110189521982014-08-09T22:03:50.817+01:002014-08-09T22:03:50.817+01:00Father, Have you read Cardinal Mindszenty's Me...Father, Have you read Cardinal Mindszenty's Memoirs? If anything shows the errors of colluding with Communism in that period, it is the treatment he received.Ben Trovatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15299230935468606845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66466066417159220892014-08-06T20:38:49.736+01:002014-08-06T20:38:49.736+01:00I am reading de Mattei's book, and with certai...<br />I am reading de Mattei's book, and with certain reservations, enjoying it. However, the copyediting is terrible. In fact, in an early chapter, he has Pius XII buried several days before he dies! <br /><br />Typos make for funny miracles!Michael Ortizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12823627318269572922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8255279287141576292014-08-05T17:00:29.652+01:002014-08-05T17:00:29.652+01:00@ rick allen:
Could not that passage from GS be d...@ rick allen:<br /><br />Could not that passage from GS be directed at any 20th century political ideology that took power in Europe? The Rad Tradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48436718226255854772014-08-04T19:17:04.073+01:002014-08-04T19:17:04.073+01:00I have no problem with Papa Montini's politene...I have no problem with Papa Montini's politeness towards the Soviets. The issue was his decision to visit New York in 1965. Was this wise? It's not clear that either he or his predecessor understood the Anglo-Saxon World. In fact Heenan made this very point in his autobiography. When "Jackie" visited the USA in the 1950's, he found America's obsession with communism Sadie Vacantisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823532366874114366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67437908194148033872014-08-04T10:51:28.609+01:002014-08-04T10:51:28.609+01:00The impact of Vatican II has not been grasped by t...The impact of Vatican II has not been grasped by the Church, which intuitively is just not yet ready to face up to it. Personally I think it was a disaster as great as any in the history of the Church.<br /><br />Two opposites brought this about, naivety and deviousness, the naivety of St John XXIII and the deviousness of the Modernist heretics who seized their opportunity.<br /><br />Having Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1668303296894851622014-08-04T03:50:01.161+01:002014-08-04T03:50:01.161+01:00"Communism, a militant ideology claiming to b..."Communism, a militant ideology claiming to be the end of all religion, was the great Question of the Day. Previous Councils had condemned the errors of their own day; Vatican II failed even to mention Communism, either in practical terms or by addressing its errors."<br /><br />Father, I think this is just plain wrong. This, for example, is from Gaudium et Spes: <br /><br />"20. rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com