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Maybe the Integers wouldn't be "pitting popes against popes, magisterium against magisterium" if the new ones would at least tip their hats to the old ones ...
And what are to make of this ??? --
"Sin is a part of the existential human drama toward salvation. St. Therese of Lisieux even thanked God for her faults, for they taught her wisdom toward salvation."
St. Therese must be spinning her incorruptable grave ...
Archbishop Weakland using church funds to pay off his Christ-o-drama stablemate is "part of the existential human drama toward salvation" and he should thank God that he got to commit these sins ??? Or is it "WE should thank God that he got to commit these sins" ???
I think the missing element is that if you recognize the horror of your sins, you can learn a lot about yourself and human nature from them ... Or the Boethius route -- That beginning spun down on the Rota Fortuna teaches one that treasures of the world perish ... The Hidden Hand follower leaves out the horror/perish insights or is incapable of understanding them because existentialism has confused his mind ...
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I wrote this back to him:
"You're a more patient man than I. As soon as I saw that someone was posting me an entire wordy article (or is it two wordy articles, I can't tell) as his 'reply,' rather than put his own thoughts into a couple of his own sentences, I just hit fast forward on the scroll bar, to see if there was a #8 posting or not.
"I think Thersa of Avila is an incorruptible saint. St. Therse of Liseaux's body was so decimated by TB that her remains were soon liquefied. The reliquary that toured the nation a year or two back was only a little over two feet long.
"Spot on on the 'good' sin does us! Did this Handyman really say that?"
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He wrote this back to me:
Very patient, indeed ... Reading the Handyman was a real chore ... No real argument or narrative to keep the mind entertained ...
"Does this Handyman really say that?" ... As much as I can make out that he is saying anything ...
His main point is that Integers and the Liberal Media have the same agenda -- to make a few bad apples look like a "crisis," when, really, everything is fine ... Where things get odd is when he tries to explain why everything is fine ...
Everything is fine because it is all going, step by step, according to the Pope's BIG PLAN ... For example -- The Pope wanted to get rid of Weakland, but he didn't want to do it in such a way as to make Weakland a martyr -- Like a fox, the Pope gave Weakland just enough rope to hang himself and LOOK ! -- It worked !!! Weakland is gone !!!
This is how sin is part of the existentialist drama of salvation ... Only the Pope (and the followers of The Glad Hand) see how sins are the grease that keep the wheels of salvation spinning ...
Mere mortals might think that sitting around for 20 years while letting someone steal a half-million dollars and decimate a diocese is a rather odd plan, but that is just because they don't see things from a "supernatural perspective" ...
I'll admit that I am a mere mortal and I find it hard to believe that all this is a carefully engineered plan ... Indeed, I hope it is not, because it is a real monsterous plan if it is one ... Someone with a "supernatural perspective" would not see little children as fuel to feed the engine of his BIG PLAN ... This type of thinking is a perversion of the Felix Culpa, not its fulfillment ...
Of course, a gnostic who believes that he has the secret knowledge that lets him hear the music made by the movement of the spheres would easily endorse a PLAN that involves children being molested ... Read the list in "1984" of things Winston Smith agrees to do for "THE BROTHERHOOD" -- throwing acid in the face of children is one item on the list, contracting VD in order to spread it to party members is another ...
Stalin summed up all "higher wisdom" when he said "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
I've had enough college to say, "you know, in a way, he is right" ... But I also know that to put into practice such thinking is terrible ...
Maybe there is a Big Plan being guided by the higher wisdom, but I hope not ... I prefer to just think that the Vatican is lazy ...