tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1806201074169611474..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Doncha just love him?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27679672843852716572018-09-08T13:18:43.496+01:002018-09-08T13:18:43.496+01:00Anna, I saw that as well. Not my part of Florida. ...Anna, I saw that as well. Not my part of Florida. It wouldn't necessarily be safe for them here if the police weren't the ones who found them.Ed Ahlsen-Girardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504985467612049862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17147849663967777652018-09-08T13:16:25.398+01:002018-09-08T13:16:25.398+01:00I have thought for quite some time that much of th...I have thought for quite some time that much of the hierarchy has suffered from a nostalgic longing for the Empire, and a misplaced hope that the UN might fill that lack. Q.v. St. John Paul's line in a speech in NYC: "Welcome to the capital of the world!"<br /><br />For those who didn't see it, he said that as if it were a nice thing.Ed Ahlsen-Girardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504985467612049862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30205506478860350072018-09-07T08:45:42.264+01:002018-09-07T08:45:42.264+01:00Moving to Mars is excellent advice for us all! The...Moving to Mars is excellent advice for us all! Their year is, after all, 668 days long, which would give us lots of room to loosen our sanctoral belt and let out the calendar. We could extend the week a bit, too, and fix the Roman breviary!Sprouting Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158776272303192025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15928093322640907832018-09-07T02:50:58.568+01:002018-09-07T02:50:58.568+01:00Cardinal Cupich, then Bishop Cupich, was well know...Cardinal Cupich, then Bishop Cupich, was well know in Spokane, WA. of the early-mid 1990s of having Gay Friendly Cathedral.Dale Crakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596274028119702873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25001739972821832812018-09-07T01:19:43.012+01:002018-09-07T01:19:43.012+01:00Did you see that 2 priests from the Chicago archdi...Did you see that 2 priests from the Chicago archdiocese while visiting Florida were caught committing an act of "clericalism" in broad daylight, in a little Volkswagen without tinted windows? Near a playground - so I heard?Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09687153663892195984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79798175190638771012018-09-07T00:04:50.197+01:002018-09-07T00:04:50.197+01:00Oh, Father, our revered host, events are driving y...Oh, Father, our revered host, events are driving you to the limits. I am afraid that whatever happens next will exceed even your powers of parody and sarcasm. Well, I will take a deep breath, have another hearty laugh, say a rosary, and think about Sue's delightful image of giving Cupich a knee.Donna Bethellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03889995101309151034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-46216916568603038942018-09-06T21:02:21.141+01:002018-09-06T21:02:21.141+01:00"Easy on the eye".
I fancy birds as wel..."Easy on the eye".<br /><br />I fancy birds as well. Always have. But I try to keep it quiet from the missus.Leofrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019877193101686112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-57378250582922263542018-09-06T19:21:27.542+01:002018-09-06T19:21:27.542+01:00"... beaches full of curial condoms ..."..."... beaches full of curial condoms ..." What a line! How tragic that it is both scurrilously funny and pointedly apt.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05174247888532190924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59255852920555685432018-09-06T18:52:26.848+01:002018-09-06T18:52:26.848+01:00"Antinoopolis" isn't on Father, as t..."Antinoopolis" isn't on Father, as that fellow's imperial Uncle was a bit of a philosopher, unlike our dear Pancho, with a sense of the duties of his office. Vide Cassius Dio, Historiae Romanae 69.6.3.Romulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18071095565318181930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6693449125451685682018-09-06T18:27:18.969+01:002018-09-06T18:27:18.969+01:00Dear Daughter of Mary
Shhhhhh ...Dear Daughter of Mary<br /><br />Shhhhhh ...Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-13750920026368058342018-09-06T18:17:41.136+01:002018-09-06T18:17:41.136+01:00I'm not anti-Latino. I just LOVE the Church of...I'm not anti-Latino. I just LOVE the Church of our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio ... Cranmer's Tudor English on the devout lips of a largely Hispanic congregation ... and the women are very easy on the eye ...Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40041296912269326742018-09-06T18:16:42.136+01:002018-09-06T18:16:42.136+01:00Speaking of dossiers, am I the only one who rememb...Speaking of dossiers, am I the only one who remembers the dossier Archbishop Dwyer prepared on the American Church half a century or so ago? That one seems to have gone down the memory hole even faster than this one.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621128117848925453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-34508415700297310542018-09-06T16:17:29.956+01:002018-09-06T16:17:29.956+01:00"Belgranoville"? Ouch!!! Be careful tha..."Belgranoville"? Ouch!!! Be careful that "anti-Latino" sentiments do not lead you to mistake a person's heritage, Fr. ;)Deacon Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549825303646357455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56244850463606410332018-09-06T15:41:46.077+01:002018-09-06T15:41:46.077+01:00I suspect tears behind the smile, Father.
Well,...I suspect tears behind the smile, Father. <br /><br />Well, at least if all the homosexuals gather in the new world in the stars their stay will be limited - no procreation, ya know! <br /><br />We can only hope that Francis does discipline Archbishop Vigano as is rumoured, as that action is so blatant that the do-do (or ca-ca as Francis would have it) will hit the fan.A Daughter of Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01439393756090630198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29610295905778004772018-09-06T14:48:37.760+01:002018-09-06T14:48:37.760+01:00It is truly to be hoped that at least one of three...It is truly to be hoped that at least one of three cardinals who prepared the dossier for Pope Benedict will have kept a copy and will see that it is proper to release it, in spite of any secrecy commitments, which should not apply anyway in this case.Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35964819830097911982018-09-06T14:24:15.294+01:002018-09-06T14:24:15.294+01:00Dear Father ...the Plastics of Satan have, one ga...Dear Father <i> ...the Plastics of Satan have, one gathers, entered through some crack into the Church </i><br /><br />The Church opened its windows and doors to the world and then the Pope was constrained to be shocked to discover that the Prince of the world had tagged along.<br /><br />The devil did not slip through any crack; he walked through the opened and unguarded front door when he who Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15028067758015450002018-09-06T13:13:57.908+01:002018-09-06T13:13:57.908+01:00"Episcopath" -that is my coinage for pre..."Episcopath" -that is my coinage for prelates like Cupich. Among other things, he is the great champion of "primacy of conscience" while not troubling much to explain how conscience is formed or critiquing the individualism that would render the Faith a meaningless adjunct to the vaunted authority of the sovereign conscience. An aapproach that additionally undermines Catholic Mike Walsh, MMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139503832809115520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73296812064754572302018-09-06T12:56:56.807+01:002018-09-06T12:56:56.807+01:00As one of your female readers, I confess with sham...As one of your female readers, I confess with shame that my reactions to Mgr Cupich are slightly more violent, with a definite inclination to knee him in the you-know-where. <br />Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8787345717707497352018-09-06T11:07:26.765+01:002018-09-06T11:07:26.765+01:00Eccles, the satirist, described the renewed plasti...Eccles, the satirist, described the renewed plastics enthusiasm of Pope Francis as 'clutching at straws'.Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.com