tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post432179826617791272..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Fr Ratzinger, von Balthasar, and demolishing the bastionsLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-45434313295171717952017-12-26T13:33:23.898+00:002017-12-26T13:33:23.898+00:00Corrected!Corrected!Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-88493227527206277782017-12-19T20:05:45.093+00:002017-12-19T20:05:45.093+00:00pious practises
the practise of marriage
Practises...pious practises<br />the practise of marriage<br />Practises and customs<br />Tut, tut. Even the Americans can spell the noun correctly.Highland Cathedralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519428794618769856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-4413712325993757672017-12-16T15:24:32.628+00:002017-12-16T15:24:32.628+00:00Can we honestly admit that the infiltration into t...Can we honestly admit that the infiltration into the Church of Communists and those infected with the heresy of Modernism, as well as those who were "liberal" already,combined together intend to destroy the true faith?<br /><br />If we look at what has happened since Vatican II and all of the changes it invoked with consistent changes occurring during each pontificate after it, it ought to be clear by now that the institutional operation of the Church is no longer Catholic. Oh sure, some remnants remain as destroying nineteen centuries of teachings will take more than 50 years to accomplish but within these last 50 years, nothing comparable in history has succeeded in destroying the true faith, even the Protestant Revolt and the French and American Revolutions. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518001443738382710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-60255694652418763852016-09-14T11:33:00.520+01:002016-09-14T11:33:00.520+01:00Don't forget Isaiah, who thought he was the on...Don't forget Isaiah, who thought he was the only prophet left, and was so miserable at the wickedness around him he wanted to crawl into a corner and die. The Lord showed him he was not alone and encouraged him to keep going. Ratzinger changed his mind around 1968 (and the liberals hate him for sussing their plot).annmariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09623314203099896293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-11988596631335313252015-12-28T12:36:26.432+00:002015-12-28T12:36:26.432+00:00I wonder whether an element of unhealthy Prussian ...I wonder whether an element of unhealthy Prussian militarism and discipline had not fed into the Catholic Church in Germany provoking an over-reaction?Nicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-25448994772053776462015-12-26T17:00:37.343+00:002015-12-26T17:00:37.343+00:00These are both excellent essays - and I do think y...These are both excellent essays - and I do think you are right to identify in Ratzinger's earlier writings here a mistrust for the panoply of Church institutions and confessional state privileges with which he had grown up. That said: even on these terms, Ratzinger was introducing a somber note not much in evidence in the writings of his other liberal contemporaries in the 60's (at least so far as I have read).<br /><br />I do wonder if we continue to underestimate the impact of the world wars in fostering this liberal mindset in the Church (which had been in evidence for many years, but never with the same force as it took on in the postwar era), and correspondingly weakening institutional resistance to it. It's not just that there was a loss of confidence in a Church which had failed to avert these unprecedentedly destructive wars by societies it had, in most cases, largely formed; but that the real victory was won by Anglo-American and Soviet societies which formed by an ethos hostile or at best tolerant of Catholicism, whereas the societies the Church was strongest in tended to be those most compromised by fascism (including Joseph Ratzinger's Bavaria), notwithstanding that the Church had made formal condemnations of fascism and had worked to resist it before and during the war. But that's a historical question, and one whose answer may be of limited value to us today as we attempt to rebuild and restore what has been lost. Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-26567331532419921142015-12-23T09:51:19.474+00:002015-12-23T09:51:19.474+00:00Thank you very much for that, Zephyrinus. I will.Thank you very much for that, Zephyrinus. I will.Jonathan Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955408376728340845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-47438219328094027522015-12-23T09:25:11.318+00:002015-12-23T09:25:11.318+00:00Your readers will find an excellent introduction t...Your readers will find an excellent introduction to some of von Balthasar's more questionable teachings here:<br /><br />http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/theology.html<br /><br />Scroll down the page; there are several articles that discuss him. His ideas certainly smell like heresy to this uneducated layman.English Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977071309466929905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-61839921197938488462015-12-23T05:30:46.366+00:002015-12-23T05:30:46.366+00:00And now we see the earthly end of destroying these...And now we see the earthly end of destroying these edifices is really Islam.Uncle Blobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10844418558987611282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-20288650843061016172015-12-22T22:32:49.844+00:002015-12-22T22:32:49.844+00:00Chesterton uses a related (and relevant) metaphor ...Chesterton uses a related (and relevant) metaphor in 'The Thing':<br /><br />'In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”<br /><br />'This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, or that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.'<br /><br />Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-11308373634706225152015-12-22T21:51:36.318+00:002015-12-22T21:51:36.318+00:00The Walled Garden is in Chapter 9 of Chesterton...The Walled Garden is in Chapter 9 of Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Was he the first begetter of this parable; or was he borrowing it from elsewhere? He doesn't say.Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-75921203168905567462015-12-22T20:41:06.861+00:002015-12-22T20:41:06.861+00:00And Saint Leo says, "God Himself teaches us b...And Saint Leo says, "God Himself teaches us by the Prophet Isaias: I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, and I will turn the darkness before them into light and I will not forsake them."<br /><br />Do not despair. Keep Praying.<br />Zephyrinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01179350648709554049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-38646087808473781752015-12-22T20:20:10.972+00:002015-12-22T20:20:10.972+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07537123281964278798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-82494291071120959152015-12-22T16:29:33.348+00:002015-12-22T16:29:33.348+00:00Can't fault a word of that! Thank you Dr Shaw....Can't fault a word of that! Thank you Dr Shaw.<br /><br />But what an utterly <i>disastrous</i> pontificate this is; the temptation to give in to despair is strengthened by every new thing the Holy Father says.<br />I have to admit that for me, the SSPX is looking a better option as each day passes.Jonathan Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955408376728340845noreply@blogger.com