Posted on 05/13/2005 9:57:43 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
A classic holier than thou phrase. Thanks. I'll add it to the watchlist.
You make me think of a kinda cute story about my from-the-old-country Polish great-grandmother (God rest her soul).
My mother remembers her, back around 1940-ish, always saying in her broken English , when talking about the reformation ...
"That g** d*** Luther!"
She had a pretty good clue as to what was going on, and from what I understand (I never got to meet her) she let everyone know it, lol.
It gets better (or worse actually).
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Archbishop William Levada. Dialogue and Dogmatism by Mary Adamski, published in the Honolulu-Star Bulletin, Saturday July 31, 2004 includes quotes from San Francisco Archbishop William Levada:
"Many of us as bishops are newly committed to seeking a path of dialogue in these areas," said Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco. "You don't start that path of dialogue by telling people you are going to refuse them Communion."
Perhaps you are more spiritually advanced than I am and you have been given the gift of discernment that may elude me. I say this honestly, it is something I will pray about tonight.
Except his failure to heed the words of St. Paul and Rome (was it Cardinal Arinze?) which instruct priests to deny Communion to pro-aborts.
Politicians like Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi who campaign for the right to stick a fork in a baby's skull and remove its brains are obstinate sinners Dominick. There is no "dialogue" with sin.
I think I liked when the world wasn't so politically correct. :-)
I know nothing about the state of your soul. Likewise, you know nothing about mine. I would appreciate you and your friends on this thread stop the name calling and accusations you direct my way while claiming you are all "non-judgmental humble people."
You shouldn't think the worst of people you know.
Ah, yes, the hatred for John Paul II that is always simmering below the surface among some of the posters here. I think the late pontiff is enjoying the beatific vision right now, after first having been embraced by the Mother whom he loved so well and to whom he dedicated the entirety of his priestly service to Christ's Church.
Quick word on this 'cause I think I understand it better.
When the example of St. Paul was used as some sort of parallel for this priest's actions, what crossed my mind shortly after was that this priest was no St. Paul in terms of postion, expertise and all the other.
And I see now that Pope St. Pius X pretty much spells out what my first instincts latched on to.
Was it Luther who said 'everyone has a pope in their belly?' Probably accounts for his near terminal constipation.
Caught a talk of Fr. Corapi today on Faith. It was really good. First talk of his I ever heard was on humility. I don't think that early on this trek back to my Faith I understood what it means to be humble. I see more clearly now what it consists of, and I think Faith and humility are intimately linked.
I want to see P B-16 succeed beyond his wildest hopes and desires, and I think he's the type of man who can blot out the millions of popes in millions of bellies. I wish him only the best, and I'm not about to start second-guessing he who the Holy Spirit appointed. I've made up my mind, I'm not following any ragsheets on him. I can find out what I need to know via other sources. I'm not going to countenance propaganda.
Thanks for the ping.
So glad you asked...
For those of you from Rio Linda a small sampling of HERESIES!!!
What Catholics disagreed on, and did a damm good job without the media:
Arianism
Oh, boy, plenty of "holy" bishops on board for this one!!!! Arius, Bishop of Nicomedia, who the heresy is named after
Monothelitism and Monothelites
Another great "Holy" Bishop; Cornelius Jansen, Bishop of Ypres
Jansenius and Jansenism
etc,etc,etc,etc..... Are there Bishops that are disenters in the RCC? OH YEAH!!! Will there be more, you bet....
So glad you asked...
For those of you from Rio Linda a small sampling of HERESIES!!!
What Catholics disagreed on, and did a damm good job without the media:
Arianism
Oh, boy, plenty of "holy" bishops on board for this one!!!! Arius, Bishop of Nicomedia, who the heresy is named after
Monothelitism and Monothelites
Another great "Holy" Bishop; Cornelius Jansen, Bishop of Ypres
Jansenius and Jansenism
etc,etc,etc,etc..... Are there Bishops that are disenters in the RCC? OH YEAH!!! Will there be more, you bet....
What the now dying Fr. Heidt did was simply point out the objective actions of his bishop.
St. Pius X admitted after that encyclical that there were enemies in the ranks of the priesthood itself. Many of those priests became bishops. And their pupils have continued in the Church to this day. Now as Paul VI said, the smoke of Satan has entered the Church and is in the HIGHEST levels of the heirarchy.
During the course of his pontificate Pius X came to know that many of the safeguards that were tried and true were no longer reliable. He felt in 1907 that the bishops were trustworthy. There is no way on earth or in Heaven above that he would have endorsed of been happy with the modernist push at Vatican II that led to the disaster of the contemporary Church. Fr. Heidt is the one who is loyal to the religion that Pius X was safeguarding. Fr. Heidt certainly was not inventing doctrines or engaging in bizarre rituals with Lutherans in some kind of Frankenstein experiment "Mass". Had Pius X been Pope, bishop Levada would be picking figs at a monastery.
Just read the first two paragraph of Pascendi and you'll see what I'm talking about.
1. One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called. There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body, for owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking "men speaking perverse things,"[1] "vain talkers and seducers,"[2] "erring and driving into error."[3] It must, however, be confessed that these latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our office.
2. That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false zeal for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the condition of a simple and ordinary mall.
And referring to the imprimatur:
Nor are you to be deterred by the fact that a book has obtained elsewhere the permission which is commonly called the Imprimatur, both because this may be merely simulated, and because it may have been granted through carelessness or too much indulgence or excessive trust placed in the author, which last has perhaps sometimes happened in the religious orders.
Ah, the days when it is what it was, and no one was afraid to say it.
I hear ya there!
"I imagine you are not Catholic so this simply is a pointless discussion."
I am not Catholic Lite for sure. All for the sake of an artificial unity, we are asked to prop up questionable prelates who fiddle with and fudge doctrine to appease encroaching secularism .... and who come down heavily on hard-working priests with the courage to reject such dilution of faith. In these circumstances. any priest has a duty to disobey.
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