unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly -
- it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
Posted on 06/18/2015 1:22:58 PM PDT by detective
Thanks. It’s been unreal. Have a nice weekend.
Be careful with that, I've been pondering why the Lord wanted to receive the baptism of repentance from John The Baptist.
Excellent post!
If the SUBJECT MATTER of the Pope’s pronouncement has nothing to do with the Faith, then NO assent is required.
The Pope says the Earth is warming. I know it is not. What is MORE important is, I know that the Catholic Church does not and cannot teach about the temperature of the Earth.
When the Pope says something about the teaching of the Catholic Church, THEN, and ONLY THEN, is any assent required, any “religious submission of mind and will, etc.
Simple. I disagree with the Pope about a matter (Is the Earth warming?) on which the Catholic Church teaches NOTHING.
You disagree with the Pope on matters on which the Catholic Church teaches infallibly.
Yeah; like, "Let's go home now."
The FACTS are what is PRINTED; not ASSUMED by Rome!
How convenient!
When Mr. Roof goes to trial; the MAN will not be judged; just his action.
Maybe if your comments were nicer; it would be harder to do.
"I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes."
Still BLIND I see.
She ASKED ...
Gotta have this in the 'teaching' so folks will 'ask' Mary to TELL Jesus what to do.
Pathetic!
Ponder no more...
...to fulfill all righteousness.
Oh?
I merely lifted it out of the book (and an OFFICIAL Catholic one at that!) and re-printed here for all to see.
Have you ever looked in the front of a Rome approved bible to see all of the titles the EXPERTS have in front of their names?
You 'know' nothing of the kind.
You believe that it's not, due to being taught by men (women?) you consider to be better informed on the subject than the commonly held 'belief' that the Earth IS getting warmer.
" The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
Oh?
Then try to convince the NON-catholic world that this encyclical; that has just been published; with the FULL approval of the Catholic Church of Rome; that is teaching NOTHING.
bujmp
Almost is a just qualifier, wagglebee. For Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, was composed in Latin....
It seems the transition from Latin to vernacular language was pioneered by Petrarch, mainly in his "Laura" poems. His close friend Boccaccio also chose to write his splendid Decameron in vernacular Italian.
I mention this because Petrarch and Boccaccio are regarded as the first Humanists — Humanism being the transitional link between the Mediaeval Age (with all its unappreciated splendors nowadays) and the Renaissance. And also because I find it notable that so often in the human past, major cultural change has originated with the Italians.... (Of which the seemingly would-be world politician Pope Francis is not one.)
[For the best summation of Humanist thought I have ever come across, see Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man.]
But perhaps I digress. Certainly I agree with you, dear wagglebee, that "The Catholic Church, and orthodox Christianity in general, are facing worldwide persecution as we speak." There is no question about that. Militant Islam is only one of the causes. There are also the domestic cultural manipulations of the LGBTQ "community"; the AGW fanatics; and the prestige of what passes for "science" these days which confirms such nonsense, etc., that put Christianity directly in view as a target of destruction.
But these folks don't just go after Catholics. They go after all Christians; so it appears the Evangelical community is particularly squarely in their sights these days: For Evangelicals now comprise the demographic majority of American Christians.
In closing, all I want to say is we Christians, regardless of confession/denomination, really need to be standing together right now. If we won't stand together, maybe we all fall together. At least as far as the secular order is concerned.
Thank you, dear wagglebee, for your insightful essay/post.
That is my opinion too, dear wagglebee. Though I do put stock in the prophets, I don't put any stock in fortune-tellers.
But Nostradamus is a fascinating cultural phenomenon. A friend of mine believes that he was predicting the end of the world; and thus every breaking event had to be analyzed through his prophecy before it could be understood.
My citation of Nostradamus was mean to be "fanciful," not serious....
I relished your digression, especially this part: I find it notable that so often in the human past, major cultural change has originated with the Italians. There's nothing like Italian ice cream! Thanks for the link (it has an introduction by Russel Kirk ; )
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