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[Palladin]

Alice Von Hildebrand is an amazing woman....filled with the Holy Spirit, and unafraid to speak the truth. I enjoy her lectures on EWTN.

[Theresa]

"Considering the tumultuous pontificate of Paul VI, and the confusing signals he was giving, e.g.: speaking about the “smoke of Satan that had entered the Church,” yet refusing to condemn heresies officially; his promulgation of Humanae Vitae (the glory of his pontificate), yet his careful avoidance of proclaiming it ex cathedra; delivering his Credo of the People of God in Piazza San Pietro in 1968, and once again failing to declare it binding on all Catholics; disobeying the strict orders of Pius XII to have no contact with Moscow, and appeasing the Hungarian Communist government by reneging on the solemn promise he had made to Cardinal Mindszenty; his treatment of holy Cardinal Slipyj, who had spent seventeen years in a Gulag, only to be made a virtual prisoner in the Vatican by Paul VI; and finally asking Archbishop Gagnon to investigate possible infiltration in the Vatican, only to refuse him an audience when his work was completed – all these speak strongly against the beatification of Paolo VI, dubbed in Rome, “Paolo Sesto, Mesto” (Paul VI, the sad one)."

This is strange. I wonder why the very pope who had the vision about the "smoke of Satan" was not as strong as he could have been.

[narses]

Ping. The end result of this is the USCCB decision to repudiate Chritianity, at least as regards our Jewish brethern.

[narses]

A new ping.

[Askel5]

both Freemasons and Communists

Sisters ... Sisters ... there were never such devoted sisters.

[Catholicguy]

TLM: Dr. von Hildebrand, at the time that Pope John XXIII summoned the Second Vatican Council, did you perceive a need for a reform within the Church?

AVH: Most of the insights about this come from my husband. He always said that the members of the Church, due to the effects of original sin and actual sin, are always in need of reform. The Church’s teaching, however, is from God. Not one iota is to be changed or considered in need of reform.

<> I remember reading this in TLM when it first came out. I thought the question impertinent and the answer a tragic example of Pride

I cannot think of a single reason why this intelligent woman's personal opinion or the personal opinion of her intelligent husband ought to be considered revelant when opposed to the equally intelligent, but also Saintly, and orthodox, Pope John 23rd.

He, after all, occupied the seat of authority that is Divinely-Constituted<>

[Catholicguy]

Modernism itself was the fruit of the calamity of the Renaissance and the Protestant Revolt, and it took a long historical process to unfold. If you were to ask a typical Catholic in the Middle Ages to name a hero or heroine, he would answer with the name of a saint. The Renaissance began to change that. Instead of a saint, people would think of geniuses as persons to emulate, and with the oncoming of the industrial age, they would answer with the name of a great scientist.

<> With all due respect, Ma'am, TLM is trading on your reputation as an intellecttual to label an Ecuemnical Council a demolition. You happen to be correct that many, including especially TLM editors and subscribers, adhere to the influence and advice of intellectuals to oppose an Ecumenical Council but you do not appear to realise the trap into which you have walked<>

[redhead]

"With the loss of a sense of the supernatural, there is a loss of the sense of a need for sacrifice today. The closer one comes to God, the greater should be one’s sense of sinfulness. The further one gets from God, as today, the more we hear the philosophy of the new age: “I’m OK, You’re OK.” This loss of the inclination to sacrifice has led to the obscuring of the Church’s redemptive mission. Where the Cross is downplayed, our need for redemption is given hardly a thought."

Just thought this bore repeating...

[narses]

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Here you go "deacon".

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Another oldie ping.

[murphE]

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