tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3619912426290977133..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Yes Baas: Grand Renaissance Prelates and their AfricansFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25699230023879393462016-01-09T03:57:07.144+00:002016-01-09T03:57:07.144+00:00I remember hearing a talk given by a priest some y...I remember hearing a talk given by a priest some years ago who asserted quite matter-of-factly that some of our Catholic clergy had been "educated right into immbecility." It would be a difficult thing to deny after reading some of the third person commentary you posted Father H.<br />The words <i>pompous haught</i> come to mind.<br /><br /><i>" . . .even the growing number of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08474622031247588124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74003841279301625462016-01-09T02:01:35.455+00:002016-01-09T02:01:35.455+00:00"Schwarz" does not mean "dark"..."Schwarz" does not mean "dark", it means "black" plain and simple.The Flying Dutchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057552757013226176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66721727109025457112016-01-08T22:23:14.494+00:002016-01-08T22:23:14.494+00:00The proper translation of "schwarzer Kontinen...The proper translation of "schwarzer Kontinent" should be "black continent". It would be quite difficult to find out, whether the root of this expression is the dark skin color of Africans or an early understanding of Africa as mainly a "terra incognita". In all-day German the usage of "der schwarze Kontinent" would mostly make the impression of being Theodorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14499572009875892943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90796127394533904532016-01-08T22:03:16.946+00:002016-01-08T22:03:16.946+00:00Ashley, let us hope you can hold out until you tak...Ashley, let us hope you can hold out until you take us in Europe over. I feel no reason to apologise for my post of a year or so ago. If anything, it seems more plausible.Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19157810420711875692016-01-08T20:18:03.131+00:002016-01-08T20:18:03.131+00:00When I think of the intelligent, articulate, zealo...When I think of the intelligent, articulate, zealous and courageous African priests I have met recently, this sort of thing makes me want to scream.<br /><br />I haven't been in Germany for some years now, but suspect that talking about the "black continent" might nowadays be regarded as racist. Come to think of it, I don't recall the expression being used much in the days when AndrewWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00196842185913965725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45111571748224901062016-01-08T14:20:07.103+00:002016-01-08T14:20:07.103+00:00"Yes Baas"- as a South African I found y..."Yes Baas"- as a South African I found your title hilarious, but thanks be to God the African higher clergy are generally not saying yes baas to their liberal European counter parts. Not yet anyhow...will mammon triumph? I hope not.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15161007761537545209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30868486459015635762016-01-08T13:49:58.062+00:002016-01-08T13:49:58.062+00:00"The Dark Continent" was probably first ..."The Dark Continent" was probably first used, mid-19th century by American Explorer Henry Stanley. The continent was "dark" because it was mostly unexplored and unmapped even though most of it was under European control.<br />The decline in such usage probably stems from the much greater knowledge the world has of the geography and cultures of the African interior. <br />What Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26981867683898174702016-01-08T11:43:28.782+00:002016-01-08T11:43:28.782+00:00Leftists are neither liberal nor progressive...the...Leftists are neither liberal nor progressive...they are illiberal and regressive. They should just be labelled iaw what they are promoting...in this instance...fornication...that is...the sexual disintegration of the person.Christopher Boegelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162023841937939481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-23031956287066611152015-01-07T21:41:28.274+00:002015-01-07T21:41:28.274+00:00Forgive me if this might be too rude, but I can...Forgive me if this might be too rude, but I can't help but comment, in terms of the liberal mindset, "Some of these Americans would do anything with a chicken."Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20597334593362981702015-01-06T17:44:31.944+00:002015-01-06T17:44:31.944+00:00Yes, shameful is the word for it.
Liberals are no...Yes, shameful is the word for it.<br /><br />Liberals are not kind. "Liberal Christian" is non-sense.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350443286068574114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-32133307075582772362015-01-06T16:32:05.496+00:002015-01-06T16:32:05.496+00:00I remember some years ago discussing sexual morali...I remember some years ago discussing sexual morality with a Nigerian Baptist who said that the irony of the negro tradition of sexual morality was that it was imposed upon them by European colonialists who have themselves abandoned their own moral sense.<br /><br />There's an awful sense of triumphalism among these liberals; the cosy, inbred, pat-on-the-back contempt for the mere people. It&#Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.com