tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post919664172531484712..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: Important: More things the Pope said that the media missedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-24642892124937819612013-07-30T22:45:45.880-04:002013-07-30T22:45:45.880-04:00Well, my impression is that the pope is a good-nat...Well, my impression is that the pope is a good-natured man, but certainly no hero or martyr. It's quite possible that he has a bad taste in his memory about his time chaplaining the junta, and that might spur him to do good as pope. At least, it seems like he'll be better than his last two predecessors in many regards, whether that's motivated by his temperament or his need to atone. In that way he reminds me of Catholic churchmen I know in the Middle East who during the 80s quietly supported unspeakable things but now are on the balance good people (I'm not speaking of the ones who did evil with their own hands and now verbally advocate it, just the ones who condoned it then quietly).Samn!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14142811721903345946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-35066983126988883562013-07-30T21:33:30.468-04:002013-07-30T21:33:30.468-04:00Very well stated Samn. Though I still wonder when...Very well stated Samn. Though I still wonder when the break came for him, and why he wasn't so adamantly and vocally opposed to the integralists when the junta ruled his country and bishops and clerics in his church were using intergralist arguments to defend the junta's brutality. Ochlophobist https://www.blogger.com/profile/13751003558600087713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-29287876863940433422013-07-30T20:01:16.097-04:002013-07-30T20:01:16.097-04:00Samn!
That is a very insightful point that I think...Samn!<br />That is a very insightful point that I think has a lot of truth to it.John (Ad Orientem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14329907942477160166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-12092128453373800092013-07-30T19:31:13.043-04:002013-07-30T19:31:13.043-04:00I think it's fairly clear that the pope can ex...I think it's fairly clear that the pope can express admiration for Eastern liturgy while disapprove of Tridentine liturgy because the former doesn't have political and theological baggage in his part of the world, while the latter very much does... I'm under the impression that support of and opposition to Tridentine liturgy outside the Anglo-Saxon world has very little to do with liturgy and a lot to do with how one feels about integralism.Samn!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14142811721903345946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-15192456537844794802013-07-30T17:29:41.255-04:002013-07-30T17:29:41.255-04:00I think that we should view the imminent restricti...I think that we should view the imminent restriction of the FFI's right to offer Mass in the EF in the light of Pope Francis' comments on the Orthodox style of worship. One cannot denigrate the EF whilst at the same time praising the beauty of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-77339796978563190712013-07-30T14:38:31.208-04:002013-07-30T14:38:31.208-04:00Funny how the media missed all that. Funny how the media missed all that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com