tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post7733338461573784552..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Marian Visions And The Infallibility Of The Modern Papacycolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-58914062441612875692012-07-21T12:59:42.481-06:002012-07-21T12:59:42.481-06:00Basically the masonic abd New Age version of Catho...Basically the masonic abd New Age version of Catholicism now is that Jesus and His long-suffering Mother wasted their time that Friday...that "be nice to people" was the whole deal.<br />I don't buy that...I believe Jesus is special.<br />Also, to be fully human, Jesus, the new Adam must have been given a new Eve...a soul twin, a woman. This is Mary, His Mother...created by the Father and given to the Son. This is Genesis, not the Pope. It's not a sex thing, a soulmate, thing....but the whole soul of a human being.<br />As usual, the Church puts thing very badly, putting people off with latinized phrases that sound more like magic.<br />I don't understand why in all the reams of writing quoting Marian apparitions, she never warned parents about abusive clergy and financial corruption. The Mary I know, the Jesus, I know and worship, are very blunt and down to earth. They don't use ethereal gobbledygook and vague prophecies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-81869091343950044242011-01-24T16:11:53.044-07:002011-01-24T16:11:53.044-07:00Catholic orthodoxy today can be summed very briefl...Catholic orthodoxy today can be summed very briefly: The Pope is right, even when he is wrong. As he is Chairman of the Party & the Praesidium, and makes all policy, this is no surprise. The CC has been totally politicised. <br /><br />If lesser fry such as other Catholic theologians say there is a case for using condoms, even if an unsought side-effect of this is contraception - they are reviled as heretics, nurslings of Satan, Democrats, baby-eating gay transsexuals, offspring of Antichrist, not real Catholics, Protestants - that kind of thing. <br /> <br />If the Pope, as a private theologian, not as bishop or Pope, says there is a case for using condoms, even if an unsought side-effect of this is contraception - this is purest Gospel truth, & there is no hell deep enough for those who in any way question it. <br /><br />IOW, truth depends not on objective realities such as whether what is said is true; it depends on relativities such as whether the speaker is also the Pope. Truth is dependent on who utters it. <br /><br />Sorry, but I thought the Pope was this great warrior against "relativism" - whatever that is; no one ever defines it (deliberately ?) Yet here he is being defended by arguments that reek of relativity; did no ever teach his groupies fundamental logic ? <br /><br />The Pope is the one man in the entire universe - pluriverse, if there are pluriverses - who has immediate access to the mind of the man identifiable as Pope Benedict XVI. If any one in any dimension or galaxy or nebula should know what Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) meant by his condom remark, it is precisely that individual. He's not been lobotomised, he's not a zombie, he's not ignorant of theology, he hasn't been crippled mentally by a stroke, he's not vanished into another dimension, he's not been turned into something by an alien virus from billions of lights years away, he hasn't been kidnapped by anything or anyone - in short there is zero reason why he cannot make absolutely clear what he meant, & make sure that it is accurately translated. But he has not made clear what he meant - why not ? Or does it not matter a d*mn to him that what he says has effects on others ? <br /><br />http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1345841?eng=y<br /><br />http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/?eng=y<br /><br />- read all the condom articles at the second link; they are very interesting; esprecially as illustration of intra-Catholic Church politics.Rat-biternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-50679290147524998502010-02-11T10:41:51.552-07:002010-02-11T10:41:51.552-07:00Sure Michael. By the way, your photos from down u...Sure Michael. By the way, your photos from down under are making me thoroughly sick of winter.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-61394734585318476602010-02-10T16:44:31.072-07:002010-02-10T16:44:31.072-07:00Hi Colleen,
Wonderful article. Could I have your...Hi Colleen,<br /><br />Wonderful article. Could I have your permission to republish it at The Progressive Catholic Voice?<br /><br />Peace,<br /><br />MichaelPCV Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-25225081620148101012010-02-08T16:51:40.039-07:002010-02-08T16:51:40.039-07:00Mariolotry and Papolatry:
2 of the biggest (but n...Mariolotry and Papolatry:<br /><br />2 of the biggest (but not onliest) idolatries in Catholicsm for a long time.<br /><br />Slavish adoration of Latin is a very close section.<br /><br />Jim McCreaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com