Just stopping by to observe that — as expected — Google has a theme today and has chosen to celebrate Halloween.
The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther and his 95 theses? Google has no time for such fluff.
Same guy called Italy’s foremost tire pump abortionist a treasure, so take his praise for what it’s worth.
William Blake
A bit conflicted.
I don’t trust this pope. Not much anyway.
Yet this article paints a picture I can agree with. Makes me want to see the direct quotes.
Don”t give this destructive communist credit for anything. The Catholic Church has said as much for some time now.
He's a terrible Pope, and a terrible theologian.
Which of the canons of Trent on justification were wrong, Holiness? Which of those infallibly taught canons would you like to "repeal"?
That is not to say that Luther was wrong on everything he said, nor that all of his Catholic contemporaries were right all of the time. And many modern Protestants have backed away from Luther actually said, or never believed it in the first place.
Luther's doctrine of extrinsic grace is not compatible with Catholicism at all, nor is his idea that saving faith is identical to the conviction that God has saved me personally, nor is his idea that loss of faith is the only real mortal sin.
“Ganss suggested that Luther was given to uncontrolled rage. That he exhibited psychopathic tendencies. That he suffered satanic delusion. That his observations were highly exaggerated, frequently contradictory, and commonly misleading. That he hated God. And that he blasphemed God.”
1) The idea that “the view of Luther among many if not most of todays Catholics is informed by a polemic written by the not entirely objective Catholic clergyman Henry George Ganss” IS RIDICULOUS.
After all Ganss view was, in fact, well borne out by historical events, Luther’s own comments, earlier works before Ganss and so on. How would the author of this ridiculously ill-informed piece explain how Grisar was writing at the same time - actually years earlier too - and came to the same conclusions as Ganss??? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48995
Grisar was writing in German and might not have even known English. His work was finished YEARS BEFORE Ganss’ article and yet they come to very similar conclusions.
2) What about Herbert David Rix? His book clearly shows Luther to have had the same tendencies supposedly falsely ascribed to him by Ganss.
The author of this article seems to have no clue about the development of literature about Luther.
Did Luther live to a ripe, Old Age?
First half false, second half true.
Even a stopped clock can be right twice a day.