Your point being?
If I was not clear on this point before, let me be now: I do not believe in Jansenist or Calvinist theology.
However, I believe that in a world which has lost its sense of sin, Catholics need to develop a stronger sense of their own unworthiness and sinful nature, and the need for repentance. And that's precisely what we aren't getting in a lot of our Churches. Certainly it's what I never got out of the Novus Ordo parishes I attended. In that sense I do admire the Jansenists.
And as for 'gaining the attention and admiration of Calvinists', I fail to see why this is necessarily bad if this leads them to find in the Catholic Church what they're missing in their own.
Your point being?
Real "traditionalists" don't
It is always a questionable exercise to decide to what extent others have a sense of sin. Be that as it may, a preceived or imagined deficency will not be corrected by heresy.
Wouldn't it be much better to cite the writings of this Pope and his own example (Confession twice weekly) as a right response?
Your point being?
Real "traditionalists" don't
It is always a questionable exercise to decide to what extent others have a sense of sin. Be that as it may, a preceived or imagined deficency will not be corrected by heresy.
Wouldn't it be much better to cite the writings of this Pope and his own example (Confession twice weekly) as a right response?