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To: D-fendr

Yes, thank you! After all, belief in logic as “truth” can be considered heresy in itself. That is rationalism, not Christianity. ‘Cogito ergo sum’ is not the motto of a Christian! Nor is Jeffersonian democracy a principle of the Faith.

The Kindergarten Katholicism of Msgr Pope (and scores of blog and konference priests like him) dumbs down the faith when it erroneously asserts the “equality” of the Trinity in a misleading effort to simplify; does revelation fit into a catchy 2000-word blog post that resembles paint-by-numbers more than theology? Or is that degradation justified for the sake of a palatable pastoral lollipop to people who cannot hope to understand Aquinas, Kierkegaard or von Balthasar?


61 posted on 05/24/2016 10:04:08 PM PDT by opus1 (This is all getting rather confusing.)
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To: opus1

It figures you would promote von Balthasar: the heretic who defended Martin Luther’s description of the Catholic Church as a “prostitute”.

>>The figure of the prostitute [forma meretricis] is so appropriate for the Church .... that it .... defines the Church of the New Covenant in her most splendid mystery of salvation. The fact that the Synagogue left the Holy Land to go and be among the pagans was an infidelity of Jerusalem, the fact that ‘she opened her legs in every road in the world.’<<

>>But this same movement, which brings her to all the peoples, is the mission of the Church. She must unite and merge herself with every people, and this new apostolic form of union cannot be avoided.<<

>>(Hans Urs von Balthasar, Casta Meretrix, in Sponsa Verbi, Brescia: Morceliana, 1969, p. 267).<<


208 posted on 05/27/2016 8:20:53 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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