tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post6909217400918318180..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: ‘Pro-Pope Francis’ petition launchedLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-54101717477567005792017-11-05T23:53:39.419+00:002017-11-05T23:53:39.419+00:00The fact that German clerics---pastors in a land a...The fact that German clerics---pastors in a land awash with all sorts of doctrinal, moral and liturgical abuses and massive apostasy---feel the need to "defend" Pope Francis from true and legitimate criticism tells the whole sordid story. Did Pius V, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, or Pius XII (to choose incompletely from a list of admirable popes) need any defense about controversies they themselves caused and which touched the deposit of Faith? We know the answer.coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-51853145088038802692017-10-19T19:17:30.712+01:002017-10-19T19:17:30.712+01:00Indeed, Riddley! Is this really the best that Germ...Indeed, Riddley! Is this really the best that Germany and Austria’s finest minds could come up with? It reads like a heap of trite copy churned out for them by the office junior while they were away enjoying an extended lunch. The first and third paragraphs are full of the puerile sycophancy with which a pupil might address a favourite schoolteacher, and the rest is pitched at the literary level of a sentimentalised greetings card. The expressions “wounded”, “pastoral culture” and “dream” are all articulated repetitively - whether in an attempt at some kind of rhetorical emphasis or just clumsily written, it’s difficult to say. Then there’s the fawning plagiarising of PF’s “field hospital” metaphor. <br /><br />“Compassion and not the law shall have the last word”. Subtle, it ain’t. Couldn’t these towering intellects be bothered to write anything vaguely original or intelligent? <br />DeHereticoComburendohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033835681461582626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-5402889602923328482017-10-19T16:37:12.445+01:002017-10-19T16:37:12.445+01:00The flakiness of the signatories is very striking,...The flakiness of the signatories is very striking, but then so is the vapidity of the content. There's no attempt to respond to the substantive points at all, which just makes their case seem weaker.<br /><br />"Shut up", they explained.Riddleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18352250581662283650noreply@blogger.com