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It figures this would be on TCR. Mr. Hand initiated an Unjust War against the current War in Iraq (we are currently there on a UN Mandate, btw) and attacked, as opposed to the Pope, several bloggers. They responded and he was nuked. I don't think he will ever recover. When push came to shove it was made apparent Hand was just making stuff up.

I fail to see how this "critique" serves any purpose at all. Normally,I am an admirer of Mr. Storck. I think he is wrong on this point.

But in recent years they have become more involved in politics, and now with their political action arm have explicitly entered the area of electoral politics.

Um, yeah. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess it does come as something of a shock to discover that when an organisation creates a "political action arm" it sorta hints that maybe, just maybe, they are gonna become politically active.

It is also interesting that Catholic Answers Action has called their new voting guide for Protestants a voting guide for Christians. By doing so, they implicitly endorse the heretical notion that Catholics are not Christians

*PUHLEEZE. It is called "meeting people where they live" Prots don't think we are Christians. However, THIS guide is about POLITICS. NOT DOCTRINE. CAPICHE?

Good Gravy. This bit of leaden pedantry and stretching to criticise makes the whole piece suspect.

And you know what, in making that criticism, HE is implicitly charging the Catholic Church with heretical practices because of its TRADITIONAL Practice.

Two can play this game :)

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Alexander VII

Congregation De Propaganda Fide "Instruction to the Vicars Apostolic of Tonkin and Cochinchina (1659)

... Finally, by conforming to the norms of evangelical charity, they must be ready to adapt themselves to the mentality and customs of others so as not to be a burden to the companions with whom they live, nor earn dishonour or even dislike of outsiders, but rather become, like the apostle, all things to all men...admire and praise whatever merits praise. As regards what is not praiseworthy, while it must not be extolled as is done by flatterers, you will be prudent enough not to pass judgement on it, or, in any case, not to condemn it rashly or exaggeradely. As for what is evil, it shouild be dismissed by a nod of the head or by silence rather than by words, without losing the occasions, when souls have become disposed to recieve the truth, to uproot it imperceptibly

OBVIOUSLY, Catholic Answers, not Mr. Storck is solidly in line with Tradition.

Mr. Storck, in the line of Traditonal Catholic Orthopraxis, owes an apology to Catholic Answers. Perhaps HE can issue a guide of, oh, I dunno, maybe 600-70 pages of moral casuistry vis a vis politics. I am sure it will be a best seller.

BTW, I guess my post pushes back to the 17th Century the advent of Indifferentism and Ecumenical Madness and destructive Modernism :)

And, btw2, what does this information do to the critics of Johannes Paulus Magnus and his days of prayers for peace with "those people?" I predict, little...