tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8299767429409437123..comments2024-03-28T20:30:48.788+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATIONFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4190220907361173752021-12-24T16:04:07.843+00:002021-12-24T16:04:07.843+00:00Dear PM. To be fair to the popes (including John-P...Dear PM. <i>To be fair to the popes (including John-Paul II and Benedict XVI), I think we should cut them a bit of slack over episcopal appointments. The overwhelming proportion of episcopal appointments are theirs in name only, as they would not know the diocese or the candidates on the terna from the proverbial bar of soap and simply have to trust that they are being well advised,</i><br /><br Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1963575983487329622021-12-24T07:34:34.117+00:002021-12-24T07:34:34.117+00:00To be fair to the popes (including John-Paul II an...To be fair to the popes (including John-Paul II and Benedict XVI), I think we should cut them a bit of slack over episcopal appointments. The overwhelming proportion of episcopal appointments are theirs in name only, as they would not know the diocese or the candidates on the terna from the proverbial bar of soap and simply have to trust that they are being well advised. One can only hope that PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80942891636130206262021-12-23T15:32:13.592+00:002021-12-23T15:32:13.592+00:00Yes, there can be no doubt that the recent pontiff...Yes, there can be no doubt that the recent pontiffs---even one we on this blog love and with reason admire, Benedict XVI---are responsible, in violation of the very pertinent magisterial teaching of Trent, for the naming of bad shepherds all around the world, including the crucial appointment of cardinals who in turn elect the Supreme Pontiff. So, the election of a Jorge Mario Bergoglio was coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11542515483362656522021-12-23T15:09:03.341+00:002021-12-23T15:09:03.341+00:00It seems to me that in the years following the Cou...It seems to me that in the years following the Council, as the liberals disregarded, derided and flouted the various decrees and pronouncements coming out of Rome trying to hold the line a new vein of tradition was established. A tradition of principled opposition to (what was seen as) an overweening and retrograde authoritarianism. Perhaps now is the time to put the shoe on the other foot.Tamquamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03527786073700268351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31107016753124317232021-12-23T10:35:29.155+00:002021-12-23T10:35:29.155+00:00Utterly ultra vires.
AvB.Utterly ultra vires.<br /><br />AvB.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33672266992355856652021-12-23T03:27:17.093+00:002021-12-23T03:27:17.093+00:00That version of Benedict XVI's intentions is a...That version of Benedict XVI's intentions is an arrant falsehood propagated by the likes of the egregious Roche. Benedict made it very clear that his purpose was to end the perverse and debilitating mentality that set the Church at war with its own past. 'What was once sacred is always sacred.' PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88150143762100200332021-12-22T21:15:25.856+00:002021-12-22T21:15:25.856+00:00Dear Father. We have as Pope who we have owing to ...Dear Father. We have as Pope who we have owing to choices made by past pontiffs.<br /><br /> Decree Concerning Reform (Trent)<br /><br />The same holy council, continuing the matter of reform, decrees that the following be ordained in the present session.<br /><br />Chapter I<br /><br /><br />Norms Of Procedure In The Election Of Bishops And Cardinals<br /><br /><i><b>If in all ecclesiastical Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-51372308800964386162021-12-22T20:45:46.964+00:002021-12-22T20:45:46.964+00:00Dear Father. The social stricture "Never punc...Dear Father. The social stricture "Never punch down" has become popular to the point of becoming trite but if the authorities in Rome were not punching down some might think they had run oft to a monastery or taken a vow of silence.<br /><br />Bergoglio has failed to defeat the trads, he is failing to defeat the trads, and he will fail to defeat the trads but now as his reign is nearingMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80158012477344351952021-12-22T20:13:40.046+00:002021-12-22T20:13:40.046+00:00Trads should go consacrate some bishops in China, ...Trads should go consacrate some bishops in China, I heard it's totally ok to do that without papal mandate, there!DePicchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999204967387233561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79957515572965152722021-12-22T18:27:20.563+00:002021-12-22T18:27:20.563+00:00Could it be that Providence allows all this to jus...Could it be that Providence allows all this to justify new ordinations of traditional bishops sine mandato?Johanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817281460507747808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26306382798001415872021-12-22T17:52:37.234+00:002021-12-22T17:52:37.234+00:00If Benedict's original was merely to extend a ...If Benedict's original was merely to extend a reconciliatory hand to the SSPX can we now assume that this hand has been withdrawn? Can we further assume that their bishops are de facto excommunicated again?Buckle13https://www.blogger.com/profile/09999071552839173898noreply@blogger.com