tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2777698303454383421..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: DubiaFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87845570480598662862017-04-02T03:02:09.071+01:002017-04-02T03:02:09.071+01:00Interesting that in letter 108, St Leo the Great c...Interesting that in letter 108, St Leo the Great couches the Spirit's guidance of the clergy in a conditional: "...ut si quid per servitutem nostram bono ordine et gratulando impletur effectu, non ambigamus per Spiritum sanctum fuisse donatum." (PL 54:1012)Calvin Engimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03598204520857427596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-69588222939136614722017-03-31T21:29:00.307+01:002017-03-31T21:29:00.307+01:00I would have thought the Holy Spirit guides every ...I would have thought the Holy Spirit guides every well-disposed person, including the Pope. I would have thought that the Pope, like everyone else, receives special graces to fulfil his office. We should respect the office and be obedient to the office holder in all that is not sin. Unless we have specific evidence to the contrary, we should assume he was validly elected to that office.RJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13871618901190898384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62381327695123568452017-03-31T17:42:17.992+01:002017-03-31T17:42:17.992+01:00That divine influence is involved in the papal ele...That divine influence is involved in the papal elections is merely a specific instance of the fact that God is in control of everything: your dubia are actually grounded on the false idea that God is not omnipotent. The better answer is that His Thoughts are not our thoughts, that He is working on a very long time scale,and His Wisdom can select methods that do not sound benevolent to us who are Jeffrey Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721363904964114392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7292194069042906832017-03-31T10:15:23.930+01:002017-03-31T10:15:23.930+01:00The unwarranted assumption by those opposed to the...The unwarranted assumption by those opposed to the Church's teaching that they were, in some special way, party to the will of the Holy Spirit came to be known in some quarters of the Church of England as "bird religion", since they commonly used the symbol of the dove.<br /><br />I look forward to the submission of your dubia to the Cardinal Archbishop and will wait in hope of neilmachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15233733837705102624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37389433395135969072017-03-31T02:55:08.755+01:002017-03-31T02:55:08.755+01:00Ana Milan, your actions sound like a form of Sedev...Ana Milan, your actions sound like a form of Sedevacantism to me.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36627687965959440442017-03-31T02:51:51.427+01:002017-03-31T02:51:51.427+01:00Perhaps some are guided by the spirit of the damn ...Perhaps some are guided by the spirit of the damn busters, Father.Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-10064086785069231872017-03-31T02:27:02.245+01:002017-03-31T02:27:02.245+01:00If memory serves, Ratzinger somewhere or other (Mi...If memory serves, Ratzinger somewhere or other (Milestones? Ratzinger Report?) says, in reflecting on the two conclaves of '78 in which he participated, that he had grave difficulties with those who claimed that the man elected pope (whether in '78 or any other conclave) is guaranteed to be the Holy Spirit's candidate or choice. He rather strongly suggested that the most one could Dr. Adam DeVillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505315831493271933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37448016179765671112017-03-31T01:42:11.065+01:002017-03-31T01:42:11.065+01:00"If so, how does the writer arrive at such co..."If so, how does the writer arrive at such confident certainty of knowledge about the daily guidance afforded to any other human being by the Holy Spirit?"<br /><br />No doubt because the writer suffers from that terminal malady: "Nasum syndrome brunneis." Deacon Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549825303646357455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6237982612335926602017-03-30T19:57:48.748+01:002017-03-30T19:57:48.748+01:00One thing that can be reliably seen when a Papal e...One thing that can be reliably seen when a Papal election occurs is that Catholics believe the Holy Spirit chooses the Pope, or something very close to that. That idea is erroneous at best, and Fr makes some points to demonstrate why this absurd notion is not so.Prayerfulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561992635589480308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15160830154717396812017-03-30T18:02:17.538+01:002017-03-30T18:02:17.538+01:00Dear Father, I sincerely hope you are planning to ...Dear Father, I sincerely hope you are planning to submit these much needed dubia - which perfectly reflect the 'questions' in my own mind regarding this rather bizarre letter - to the Cardinal Archbishop. I will await his response with great anticipation. I'm sure he reads your blog so he could always post a quick reply...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14258139656128409092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11998848398390261002017-03-30T17:14:50.199+01:002017-03-30T17:14:50.199+01:00We all owe a lot of thanks to Wesley who populariz...We all owe a lot of thanks to Wesley who popularized a sort of spiritual empiricism that by its very nature is unfalsifiable. That is the point of these dubia. What can his Eminence produce to verify this? Formally, this grammar shares deeply in the grammar of twentieth century English-speaking protestantism of all varieties. What we in America call the mainline (Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran,billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15460450057180277058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22916582891848733542017-03-30T13:19:47.770+01:002017-03-30T13:19:47.770+01:001. Affirmative.
2. Chastisement.
3.Negative.1. Affirmative.<br />2. Chastisement.<br />3.Negative.Joy313https://www.blogger.com/profile/14501748635799109241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67241396923950025312017-03-30T11:52:44.686+01:002017-03-30T11:52:44.686+01:00Maybe prior to VII Cardinals were more prayerful &...Maybe prior to VII Cardinals were more prayerful & open to the promptings of the Holy Ghost but certainly after VII the smoke of Satan definitely entered the Vatican & hence the CC. There is no way He had anything to do with the election of PF & the outcome of this disastrous papacy is proof of that. The Holy Ghost would never raise a Marxist to the Throne of Peter! Fr. Amorth saidAna Milanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13614286775064340959noreply@blogger.com