tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post9071191085358830019..comments2024-03-28T20:30:48.788+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: INTRINSECE MALUM (2)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26302316590638036282018-02-08T15:17:30.426+00:002018-02-08T15:17:30.426+00:00I am sorry if above questions were annoying and or...I am sorry if above questions were annoying and or not appropriate for this blog.<br /><br />My wife's brother is studying part time at night for a theology degree. He advised I google: Charles Curran situation ethics, Charles Curran natural law etc. Also, to read recent comments on a blog like: Southern Orders, for an orthodox alternative to Curran et al, that an average lay person could Paul https://www.blogger.com/profile/01822223437759094008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-53172886198980230882018-02-08T06:34:38.102+00:002018-02-08T06:34:38.102+00:00"Thank God the Catholic Church under pope Fra..."Thank God the Catholic Church under pope Francis is freeing believers from the narrow legalisms of act-centred morality."<br /><br />Fr Hunwicke or someone else here, could you briefly explain the above quote, assuming I have about half your intelligence and less than a tenth of your theological knowledge?Paul https://www.blogger.com/profile/01822223437759094008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74790176409590683942018-02-08T05:06:30.796+00:002018-02-08T05:06:30.796+00:00The present ecclesiastical mafia has contempt not ...The present ecclesiastical mafia has contempt not only for justice but also for truth. Their half century of abuse against Catholic Truth is on a different order from their sexual misdeeds and cover-ups, but they are usually guilty of both. I leave it to competent moral theologians to determine which is more serious: the sins against justice or against truth---or perhaps they are two sides of coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52949951685953063052018-02-07T21:51:30.903+00:002018-02-07T21:51:30.903+00:00I am a little ill at ease when modern people latch...I am a little ill at ease when modern people latch on to the pronouncements of recent pontiffs for direction as to the tenets of Catholic Doctrine. No doubt papal encyclicals can provide clarity or reaffirmation, but Catholic Doctrine is not in a state of flux such that we need the pontiff <i>pro tem</i> to affirm it in order for it to be valid.<br /><br />Pope Paul VI did not advocate new GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19135780222668760842018-02-07T19:11:46.873+00:002018-02-07T19:11:46.873+00:00The linked article argues that Veritatis splendor ...The linked article argues that Veritatis splendor not only teaches and defines, but *imposes* its teaching as infallible. The pope directs us to spit out the error of the denial of intrinsically evil acts.<br /><br />https://onepeterfive.com/veritatis-splendor-infallible<br />Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29244491828840202732018-02-07T14:39:06.222+00:002018-02-07T14:39:06.222+00:00Regarding certain acts being intrinsically evil.
I...Regarding certain acts being intrinsically evil.<br />I once heard official Church teaching criticized thus:<br /><br />The physical act of killing cannot be held to be intrinsically evil as over centuries the Church taught it was not sinful to take human life in self defense, in a just war or by a legal death penalty for the most serious crimes.<br />So it can't be the physical act of Paul https://www.blogger.com/profile/01822223437759094008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37278568980362902012018-02-07T14:11:51.961+00:002018-02-07T14:11:51.961+00:00Could the denial of intrinsic evil be considered a...Could the denial of intrinsic evil be considered a sin against the Holy Spirit? Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11981406912579076381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6031437295032953092018-02-07T01:52:13.001+00:002018-02-07T01:52:13.001+00:00Dear Father, of course you're in fact not sorr...Dear Father, of course you're in fact not sorry for not enabling abusive comments. I'm not particularly desirous to see Paul VI canonized, since it will become an ideological weapon, but the Credo of the People of God and Humanae vitae are works of grace triumphing over evil. Matthew Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00958673318312786618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19633677660652311112018-02-06T23:09:32.799+00:002018-02-06T23:09:32.799+00:00Dear Miss Cathedral
You're dead right. One of...Dear Miss Cathedral<br /><br />You're dead right. One of the brilliances of Veritatis Splendor was that in paragraph 80 JP2 incorporated the paragraph 27 of Gaudium Spes which mixed up some of the 'trendy' moral absolutes you talk about with 'traditional' sins, thus calling the bluff of those who decry all moral absolutes and then offer us their own list of moral absolutes. I Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86553832935901751632018-02-06T20:36:14.778+00:002018-02-06T20:36:14.778+00:00For those who need it, here is the link to the art...For those who need it, here is the link to <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-pope-john-paul-iis-prophetic-warning-in-defense-of-humanae-vitae" rel="nofollow">the article on Life Site News</a>.<br /><br />Back in the day, I attended an NFP course in London, which included a visiting session from the wonderful Doctors Billings. When I asked the organisers why this knowledge - andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18586289415741583082018-02-06T18:55:24.844+00:002018-02-06T18:55:24.844+00:00Thanks for the references to C. S. Lewis: the use ...Thanks for the references to C. S. Lewis: the use of “Bent Eldil” recalled *That Hideous Strength* to mind. Perhaps there will be a cleansing of this age as in that novel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04228471728445126967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36590831993159978212018-02-06T17:58:41.445+00:002018-02-06T17:58:41.445+00:00Surely racism, gender inequality and income inequa...Surely racism, gender inequality and income inequality are, for our modern crowd, intrinsic evils. Not to mention climate change: surely, not wanting to reduce your carbon emissions is an intrinsic evil. Or not welcoming refugees. Even not praying for your political leaders is, says Pope Francis, a sin so presumably that is also intrinsically evil. Or are there exceptional circumstances (to be Highland Cathedralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519428794618769856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90028516868651016442018-02-06T15:41:27.397+00:002018-02-06T15:41:27.397+00:00It's amazing how many Catholic saints, from St...It's amazing how many Catholic saints, from St. John the Baptist on down, have been martyred or persecuted for their defense of marriage. Particularly, there are tons of French and Belgian saints of this type.<br /><br />Occasionally, other churchmen have been doing the persecuting....Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74771877071489592792018-02-06T13:37:08.283+00:002018-02-06T13:37:08.283+00:00We have much to be grateful to the Popes Paul VI a...We have much to be grateful to the Popes Paul VI and JP2. And, as a moralist, I am also delighted by your clear statement of Catholic morals where intrinsice malum is concerned.Cherubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998294374027724557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2571150139419372082018-02-06T13:36:57.984+00:002018-02-06T13:36:57.984+00:00But Fr, I think you have missed the point of the n...But Fr, I think you have missed the point of the new paradigm. We are not even talking about "situation ethics" anymore. This is all to do with "concrete circumstances". I trust you can appreciate the difference between the two concepts, and that your mind is now put at rest.Deacon Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549825303646357455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81664999661320165432018-02-06T13:12:43.552+00:002018-02-06T13:12:43.552+00:00Of course, we continue to see the bizarre behavior...<br /><br />Of course, we continue to see the bizarre behavior of those who say , "Pope Francis' reading of A.L. .." as if it were not HIS work.<br /><br />Our Pope and Our Cross is a heretic and ABS does not understand why it is considered wrong to state that truth forthrightly for anyone can see these evils have been part of his agenda for a very long time.<br /><br />In any eventMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17563717034026353522018-02-06T11:31:21.430+00:002018-02-06T11:31:21.430+00:00I have no doubt that the members of what Austin Iv...I have no doubt that the members of what Austin Ivereigh calls “Team Bergoglio” disbelieve in Veritatis Splendor and intrinsic evil.<br /><br />The sign of this disbelief is this: that the sex abuse coverup artist Cardinal Danneels stood on the balcony with Pope Francis when he was introduced to the world.<br /><br />This was an opening bookend of duplicity against the faithful that will mark Christopher Boegelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162023841937939481noreply@blogger.com