tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post906010251037393682..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The Irish ReferendumFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28499154831354561562018-05-18T11:56:36.572+01:002018-05-18T11:56:36.572+01:00As regards the inflated authority of Bishops' ...As regards the inflated authority of Bishops' Conferences....who wrote this in 2013 in "Evangelii Gaudium", para 32?<br /><br />"Yet this desire has not been fully realized, since a juridical status of episcopal conferences which would see them as subjects of specific attributions, including genuine doctrinal authority, has not yet been sufficiently elaborated.[37] Excessive Bill Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06490443795561210965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81633533437115175332018-05-17T21:32:47.897+01:002018-05-17T21:32:47.897+01:00The wall of silence around Conry is the height of ...The wall of silence around Conry is the height of clericalism. Do not the faithful, especially those of A and B over whom he was set, have some right to know about his career trajectory and his fate subsequent to his disgrace?vetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27751040045560241272018-05-17T15:29:58.667+01:002018-05-17T15:29:58.667+01:00My FB friend Cathal loftus observed that a large f...My FB friend Cathal loftus observed that a large facor in voting on the 8th will be about revenge. It will not be rational, but it will be about Savita, and other women, about the Magdalen Laundries, about adoption and industrial schools, and episcopal hypocrisy. For many people, it will be about anything except human life, and the facts will not matter. <br />Arthur Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13729734180689395101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14364959323964230512018-05-17T14:12:11.056+01:002018-05-17T14:12:11.056+01:00Saint Raymond of Penafort:
If the preacher of tru...Saint Raymond of Penafort:<br /><br /><i>If the preacher of truth is really not deceiving us when he says that all who want to live godly lives in Christ will suffer persecution, then no one, I think, is exempted from this general rule. If he is, it is because he neglects or does not know how to live a sober, upright and religious life in this present age. I should hope that you would not be Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87544308034894825102018-05-17T13:57:29.357+01:002018-05-17T13:57:29.357+01:00Decree Concerning Reform, Session VI, Chapter I
...Decree Concerning Reform, Session VI, Chapter I <br /><br /><i>"The same holy council, the same legates of the Apostolic See presiding, wishing to restore a very much collapsed ecclesiastical discipline and to reform the depraved morals of the clergy and the Christian people, has deemed it proper to begin with those who preside over the major churches [bishops], for unblemished character in Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11699519991957024772015-06-02T11:00:23.254+01:002015-06-02T11:00:23.254+01:00I was struck by Matthew Parris’ article in The Spe...I was struck by Matthew Parris’ article in The Spectator – “In Irish Catholicism, it seems God can be outvoted”.<br /><br />That it takes a self-admitted gay atheist to remind the Hierarchy of their responsibilities is sad - but telling. That a humbled Hierarchy was unable to mount a strong defense of truth is disappointing, but not unexpected. Years of ‘protecting their own’, tolerating dissent GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15737730068958357622015-06-02T07:37:37.335+01:002015-06-02T07:37:37.335+01:00"I wonder what narrative History will give of..."I wonder what narrative History will give of the First World Episcopate in the decades since the Council."<br /><br />I suspect it will be that the Second Vatican Council, like the First, was extremely inopportune.Tony Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10862727279147129707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35691125165723485932015-06-02T04:12:06.630+01:002015-06-02T04:12:06.630+01:00When you look at the stats for the vote the 'y...When you look at the stats for the vote the 'yes' crowd were not an Irish majority of possible votes, just a majority of unfortunate actual votes. "Of the 3,221,681 registered Irish voters, 1,201,606 (37 percent) voted “Yes” to same-sex civil marriage; 734,000 (23 percent) voted “No” on the issue; 13,818 (less than 1 percent) of the votes were “spoiled”; and fully 1,272,257 voters (Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746510579669229511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45927731109908333052015-06-02T01:11:30.105+01:002015-06-02T01:11:30.105+01:00"last disastrous half century"
That say..."last disastrous half century"<br /><br />That says most if not all of it Father. Better not go into detail, another time perhaps. <br /><br />Looking at the Voris video recently he asked the question, " are you a baptised Catholic". Now Baptism has continued but most of those interviewed simply did not believe, because, they were never taught, either in school Apologetics Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5303354264116603152015-06-01T22:58:36.034+01:002015-06-01T22:58:36.034+01:00Retired Irish Bishop, Willie Walsh, told the secul...Retired Irish Bishop, Willie Walsh, told the secular press just after his retirement that he is not at all convinced that there is an afterlife. With 'leaders' like that, Irish apostasy should come as no surprise. What a pity that someone didn't think to ask whether he actually believed anything at all before they decided to ordain him. I hope that he is enjoying the pension and Lepantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487748842744745860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84301648654177790452015-06-01T19:27:08.602+01:002015-06-01T19:27:08.602+01:00The late Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete used to say that y...The late Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete used to say that you can tell that the bishops are the successors to the apostles because, when the chips were down, the apostles distinguished themselves by betraying Our Lord, denying Our Lord, and running away like scared rabbits rather than standing with Our Lord.Seamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065227784774273923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43585752630931502262015-06-01T17:44:52.019+01:002015-06-01T17:44:52.019+01:00Thank you to Michael Leahy for the pointer to Dr. ...Thank you to Michael Leahy for the pointer to Dr. Judith Reisman. <br />Watch three or four minutes from 4 minutes onwards to understand another aspect of the enemy`s strategy:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-un-M2ePCg<br /><br />Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350443286068574114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52429322425376005962015-06-01T17:22:58.815+01:002015-06-01T17:22:58.815+01:00The failure to teach Humanae Vitae was and is a ma...The failure to teach Humanae Vitae was and is a massive dereliction of duty the consequences of which are visible as far as the eye can see. Not only were the Catholic laity let down, but the whole world was and is denied the liberating truth which reduces divorce and infertility, adultery and abortion. Of course, the whole world wouldn`t, en masse, have accepted such a teaching, but what a brakeJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350443286068574114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79490239407162652992015-06-01T14:22:03.883+01:002015-06-01T14:22:03.883+01:00How much more strengthened can the order of bishop...How much more strengthened can the order of bishops get? Are they not together the Magisterium, who, according to RC teaching, when in union with the Bishop of Rome, are IT, as in, there ain't nothing more?Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833345391579579562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22608886836128609522015-06-01T14:02:21.347+01:002015-06-01T14:02:21.347+01:00So the Irish have blasphemed the Trinity, Whose do...So the Irish have blasphemed the Trinity, Whose dominion they acknowledge at the outset of their now shamefully perverted Constitution; the snakes have been let back into Ireland; is St Patrick to be removed as the Patron of so unhappy an isle? In better days such would have brought an interdict upon the whole country. They had better remember what happened to Atlantis.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61106952058569244332015-06-01T12:02:14.729+01:002015-06-01T12:02:14.729+01:00Found your last line hilarious, Father, probably b...Found your last line hilarious, Father, probably because it is utterly true. Was it Saint Athanasius who described the floor of Hell being paved with the skulls of Bishops? In fairness, I suspect that the root of the problem lay in an excessive faith in the so-called and since much discredited "science" of psychology at the expense of Christian morality and Canon Law. Of course, this Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64415589122595994082015-06-01T11:14:56.835+01:002015-06-01T11:14:56.835+01:00As Conry was CMOC's protege, they are unlikely...As Conry was CMOC's protege, they are unlikely to look into the circumstances of his appointment. After all it might cast doubt on all the appointments CMOC has had a hand in - not least the role he played in "Team Bergoglio."Deacon Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549825303646357455noreply@blogger.com