Posted on 04/05/2005 7:44:40 AM PDT by Thorin
JPII was very clever in his balance on the fine line. In order to become guilty of formal heresy, he would have had to acknowledge the context of the topic in the light of tradition and then say that he rejects that, and instead proclaims something else. He never did that. He just went about behaving as though he could establish new principles, without making any acknowlegement of established principles. This is otherwise known as innovation.
What is now coming out is how much he protected wayward clarics over the years. This behavior could become very costly for the Church he left behind.
Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, one of the most notorious figures in the history of the New Vatican, is alive and well, absconded just outside of Phoenix. Marcinkus was president of the Vatican Bank from 1971 to 1989.
And who hid him? First of all, the late pope JPII, whose reign was riddled with scandal. It is becoming more and more clear that JPII was far from a "saint," but actually suborned sex crimes and embezzlement from the Church, certainly by his silence if not by aiding and abetting the crimes himself. (E.g., Cardinal Law, ousted from Boston.)
It will be years before this is all put to rest, and hopefully it will eventually be so put! Pope Benedict XVI has a very big job ahead of him, and a return to Tradition will be just about his only resource, it seems to me.
Thanks. Do you have a link?
Interesting question.
I knew the late Fr. Frederick Schell, who advised strongly against using the Internet. He was old school in that way, and believed in using pen and paper if not just picking up the telephone.
Now I wonder if there were any priests who grew up without telephones in the house who counseled against their use!
In any event, the answer is "no." Fr. Poncelet takes his crusade against TV all the way to the use of computers. He is absolute in his denouncement of every kind of visual electronic display. He has written two books on this topic, Air Waves From Hell, and TV: Prelude to Chaos. You might know about them.
Therefore, he has no website. He has no e-mail address. But if you would like his mailing address, I'll look it up for you.
Fr. Schell is a ledgend. My own late pastor, Fr. Paul Wickens, learned a great deal from Fr. Schell about the establishment of Traditional chapels. We had a detailed discussion of his experience in CA.
I wish I could have met Fr. Wickens. He sent me a free video of his requiem Mass for Fr. Malachi Martin, which I enjoyed watching.
Ok. I will.
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