tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2546372584733123677..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: My dear WormwoodFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5424719884379599612010-12-24T22:17:54.935+00:002010-12-24T22:17:54.935+00:00Jonathan: I am suggesting that when journalists ap...Jonathan: I am suggesting that when journalists approach victims of paedophilia with their own heavily massaged, selective, and tendentious accounts of what the pope has said, the victims are very naturally extremely upset.<br /><br />If the journalists, on the other hand, were to approach the victims with the question:"The pope is very angry with the teachers who, back in the 1960s, taught Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71665519415858843742010-12-24T19:16:08.971+00:002010-12-24T19:16:08.971+00:00You've missed the point - I can only assume th...You've missed the point - I can only assume that this is deliberate. I have indeed read what the Bishop of Rome has said on the issues I refererred to earlier. I understand what he is saying and why, but I also see the context and the way he expresses himself and only a fool could fail to see why this is often a gift to the hostile media or an affront to those who feel raw about a Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15597129831186232730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-82507896235215756982010-12-24T09:22:40.582+00:002010-12-24T09:22:40.582+00:00"Jonathan" provides indeed an amusing pa..."Jonathan" provides indeed an amusing parody of the fodder who are taken in by the Enemy and his media. The essence of the real "Jonathans" is that they have clearly never actually read what the Bishop of Rome says; they are simple souls who are overwhelmed by the consensus of the public commentators ... "Everybody says it so it must be right".<br /><br />In the Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64574671919958851852010-12-24T08:51:42.937+00:002010-12-24T08:51:42.937+00:00Is "Jonathan" a plant? He seems to demon...Is "Jonathan" a plant? He seems to demonstrate the case perfectly.The Raven (C. Corax)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08605347404726608685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61196820679967699082010-12-24T07:04:51.460+00:002010-12-24T07:04:51.460+00:00It's no good trying to defend the indefensible...It's no good trying to defend the indefensible. Numerous statements e.g. on the holocaust and those who deny its horrors,and this issue of sexual abuse by priests are indicators that the popes inept public statements are systemic rather than occasional. This is not just a media beat up, victims of abuse are appalled by the popes statements and only an ostrich would fail to see why. For Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15597129831186232730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84739302597888978982010-12-24T05:49:59.925+00:002010-12-24T05:49:59.925+00:00There is also the method whereby one claims that t...There is also the method whereby one claims that the Pope is blaming secularism and relativism in order to ward off any criticism of the Church. This ignores the fact that in the paragraph before he has criticised the Church's behaviour in the strongest terms, terms never uttered, at least not in my memory, by a Pope.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352598115559204014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22013590623766740022010-12-23T21:04:13.819+00:002010-12-23T21:04:13.819+00:00Bravo!Bravo!Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79817548506250027252010-12-23T11:56:02.508+00:002010-12-23T11:56:02.508+00:00Excellent, Father!
We have had a need for another...Excellent, Father!<br /><br />We have had a need for another Lewis, Chesterton or Belloc for some time. I'm sure you can expand upon this with other examples.<br /><br />Perhaps a book...?GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1950940186918390652010-12-23T11:49:30.626+00:002010-12-23T11:49:30.626+00:00Fr Humwicke,
Excellent piece.
I doubt that anyo...Fr Humwicke,<br /><br />Excellent piece. <br /><br />I doubt that anyone truly believes that the Holy Father was trying to say that he thought the evil that is paedophilia was 'all right.' Anyone not bound and determined to put the worst interpretation possible on his words must know that. The way that they are determined to use the pain of others in pursuit of their anti-Church agenda isPaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112119118958158131noreply@blogger.com