tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8518001048574160228..comments2024-03-28T12:26:03.686+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: "Is there still a Pope in Rome?"Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84189487743702665382021-03-23T14:04:22.413+00:002021-03-23T14:04:22.413+00:00Manuel, do correct me if I am wrong, but what you ...Manuel, do correct me if I am wrong, but what you directed me to seems to have little correlation to any thing said as public prayer. The collect for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, for example, is rather specific about what is to be believed regarding Matthew 16,16. "Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast on the rock of the Apostle Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833345391579579562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41205793864496845502021-03-23T13:52:41.911+00:002021-03-23T13:52:41.911+00:00Thank you, Father H., for mentioning, in the midst...Thank you, Father H., for mentioning, in the midst of matters most serious, the delightful Fawlty Towers. I have been much tempted to despair of late, but now, with scenes from FT running through my mind, I am fortified to laugh and to carry on.Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09389331905259998139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20846143174205594722021-03-23T12:17:58.011+00:002021-03-23T12:17:58.011+00:00A learned Dominican expositor of the theology of S...A learned Dominican expositor of the theology of St Thomas Aquinas once quipped that to the Thomistic tradition 'blind obedience' made as much sense as blind learning. Aquinas would have had no truck with Ignatius' 'white is black'. He agreed that we owed obedience, but we did not have to pretend to ourselves that a bad decision was a good one; rather, we should offer up our PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36235874312101437862021-03-23T08:02:57.963+00:002021-03-23T08:02:57.963+00:00Our Lord commissioned the pastoral role of Peter b...Our Lord commissioned the pastoral role of Peter based on faith and love of Him. See Aquinas. Peter do you love me? He did not commission mere mortal fallen human flesh......he did not create a papal tranny....a Jesuit trick.....the 13th rule of Loyola on following the mind of the church...."The white you see is black if the hierarchical church so decides it."lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18241812863817316056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76324913359897412662021-03-23T03:14:38.920+00:002021-03-23T03:14:38.920+00:00I accept that a man can be Pope, and still be mali...I accept that a man can be Pope, and still be malicious, or greedy, or have some other defect. He still would have free will, after all. But people also need to accept that whether there is an interegnum, or if someone said to be Pope is actually an anti-pope, or that the person whom I accept as Pope may be the wrong one alltogether is also possible. None of that is "sede-vacantism" I Arthur Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13729734180689395101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1191317265978062312021-03-22T19:58:10.424+00:002021-03-22T19:58:10.424+00:00Dear Father. None of his actions ought be shockin...Dear Father. None of his actions ought be shocking. Pope Francis is the autocratic apotheosis of Vatican Two.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85623847666977575992021-03-22T19:16:31.223+00:002021-03-22T19:16:31.223+00:00It means to recognize his jurisdiction. So, if Pop...It means to recognize his jurisdiction. So, if Pope Francis names a new bishop to your diocese, Stephen, that man really is your Bishop, endowed with sacred authority by Christ and by the Church. So, if he dispenses a Catholic man from the prohibition of marrying a non-baptized woman, the marriage is valid. <br />You and all of us must at the same time, first of all and above all, hold and Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27306250583766579982021-03-22T18:51:01.769+00:002021-03-22T18:51:01.769+00:00Regarding your second question, check Denzinger, n...Regarding your second question, check Denzinger, n. 3060.Manuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17625238250805638089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-46892176170318463962021-03-22T16:46:41.724+00:002021-03-22T16:46:41.724+00:00Dear Father. After his election ,where The Bishop ...Dear Father. After his election ,where The Bishop of Rome chose to live was, to ABS at least, an indicator of his Papal plan. It was there that the Vatican Two revolutionaries met daily to successively formulate their plans and strategies to ditch the carefully crafted schemas (which were quite splendid and easy to understand, requiring no outside hermeneutics of continuity) and substitute their Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73313541881878539132021-03-22T15:10:51.074+00:002021-03-22T15:10:51.074+00:00What exactly does in mean to be in full communion ...What exactly does in mean to be in full communion with him? Why is it my duty? Where in the common, accessible, public prayer life of the Church can answers to these questions be found?Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833345391579579562noreply@blogger.com