tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post8679237641247768329..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: A Liberal Catholic Ponders the Possibility of a Conservative SchismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-49602472019801151562014-11-01T18:17:20.481-04:002014-11-01T18:17:20.481-04:00Strikes me as more embarrassing alarmism.
I think...Strikes me as more embarrassing alarmism.<br /><br />I think 99% of the hysterical worry about the pope would be alleviated if people would read what he actually says--words that are available to anyone at the touch of a few buttons.<br /><br />Instead, most seem to rely on intermediaries assuring us of his real meaning, his true purposes, with badly translated, out-of-context fragments to support their pope-of-the-day. All "media" must summarize, and must get attention in a cacaphony of voices. The more outrageous become the most read, the most emailed, the most tweeted--and usually the least accurate. Like Pope Benedict's "red Pradas," silly speculation quickly becomes established fact.<br /><br />Some of this is at least understandable on the part of non-Catholics, who see the papacy as just another political office, and subject to all the interest-group pressure we see everyday. For those of us who are Catholics, however, it seems odd that the papal office, which Catholic teaching assures us was given as a support of orthodoxy and a sure voice of comfort, can become such a source of anxiety. rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-63717409999911854902014-10-31T21:56:26.565-04:002014-10-31T21:56:26.565-04:00Very, very difficult to imagine this but for the f...Very, very difficult to imagine this but for the fact that traditionalism and modernism are completely antithetical. Different outlook, different thought process, different conclusions from the same inputs, different everything. So yes, another schism will probably happen. The two worldviews cannot coexist in the same institution.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-20025613478578317232014-10-31T12:27:52.553-04:002014-10-31T12:27:52.553-04:00Just for clarification, I am not the author of the...Just for clarification, I am not the author of the article.John (Ad Orientem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14329907942477160166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-48681473158284245262014-10-31T11:21:59.065-04:002014-10-31T11:21:59.065-04:00Your assessment of Catholic Traditionalism is accu...Your assessment of Catholic Traditionalism is accurate. Sedevacantism is the only form of Catholic Traditionalism which, despite its convoluted reasoning, makes sense. There is no middle ground on which to stand, papal infallibility makes it all or nothing.Prior Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676817526437140998noreply@blogger.com