Posted on 11/23/2013 11:39:06 AM PST by markomalley
**As I have said all along, Pope Francis – like every Pope – has to learn how to be Pope. He had less of an advantage coming to the See of Peter because he had not been in or around the Roman Curia. But he is adjusting, learning, transforming. Francis, as you can see everyday, is not static in his job. He isn’t simply on cruise control.
Continue to pay close attention to Pope Francis, not just in sound-bites, but in the larger arcs of his talks and speeches and written documents.
This is not a bone thrown to conservatives. This is the real deal. This is Francis.**
I think Fr. Z nails it here.
The trouble with catholics is that they have to make up a vocabulary that is so contorted that an average person can not understand them. I will stick with the charismatics as their speaking in tongs is soothing next to the put on super intellect put out by the catholics.
so what vocabulary is made up here?
tongues
Ping!
What I find interesting is the fact that the Jesuit’s main role in their beginning was to put the rules of the Council of Trent into action. Now we have a Pope who will be finishing the details.
The Modernists and Leftists are always hoping for an Episcopalian Pope. They are necessarily always disappointed.God is not a Modernist.
so what vocabulary is made up here?
“hermeneutic of continuity”, What is that supposed to mean?
I am not uneducated but if Catholics want to bring people into their church they need to use common language so the people know what they are talking about.
tongues
Sell check is such a help.
Thanks
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I think I am distracted a bit. Which is more important spelling or typing? May they are equal.
After getting burnt by a journalist and a politician, HH seems intent on letting his intentions be known.
I think we all know what continuity means, yes? If so, we can get the point.
common language so the people know what they are talking about.
George Washington went to a Dutch church and set listening 5 hours to the Pastor in Dutch, which he did not understand. A lot of talk is Greek to me.
Did George Washington make a complaint about it?
George Washington did not complain as he held going to church in high regard. He was already knowledgeable of God. I expect that he knew many languages and had a much deeper understand than generations now. I guess I expect much form a church especially now. I guess this forum is really not for evangelism nor an elementary education.
Well, good grief, they don’t talk about the hermeneutic of continuity during mass or anything.
“charismatics as their speaking in tongs”
Strange. I thought they spoke in spatula.
“The trouble with catholics is that they have to make up a vocabulary that is so contorted that an average person can not understand them.”
The average UNEDUCATED person, maybe. Those who are educated have less difficulty understanding the vocabulary used by particular defined groups. Having said that, what group has an easily understood vocabulary - easily understood by the “average person” anyway? Jews? Nope. Evangelicals? Not really? Are you a post, mid-, or pre-, millenialist, for instance? Are you a Preterist? Get the point?
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