I made a New Year Resolution, to be positive, to avoid odium theologicum, to post happier thoughts.
Then I read this, http://disq.us/12wgna in The Catholic Herald.
Do these fundamental orifices through which the Devil speaks (to paraphrase, from memory, the words of St Thomas More, speaking of Luther) have any concern, in their academic arrogance, for the spiritual, moral, and physical threats their propositions pose to the young, the confused, the weak, the tempted?
Judith Konemann, a professor from Munster and one of the signatories, told the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung: “It looks like we struck a nerve.”
Her grammar (or the translator's) stinks, as does her arrogance. How can one charitably answer such as have no charity towards their readers and hearers?
Torquemada, anyone? Now there was a man!
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I would like to make a call for the dissolution of the German Episcopal union.
Must stop, thin red mist rising!
Richard - seconded!
The old heresy of Conciliarism is back in play, as it was in the times leading up to the Reformation.
No, no, no! Torquemada was a scoundrel. What you're witnessing is the Reformation Mark II, the corroded rivets having popped on the iron beehive of Trent. What you have to recognise if you're ever going to get clear of this "crisis" is that Reformation, a product of late-medieval Catholicism, has damaged Catholicism itself. You've settled down in this 500-year-old ruinous dialectic as though it were something normal instead of a millenial Groundhog Day. You need to wean yourself off these vainglorious opiates (ultramontanism, "Torquemada",) and recover a truly Traditional Catholicism, not this ideological mirage, which is ultimately no better than the thing it opposes.
(PS: It was the overturning of "Conciliarism" that spawned the Reformation; in the same way, ultramontanism has incubated Reformation Mark II).
According to New Advent Catholic Encyclypoedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm his cruelty has been exaggerated, and was, in its time, not unusual, and was necessary to preserve the Faith in Spain.
He'd certainly be kept pretty busy now.
TH2 - true, and the 'reformation' then was at least partly political, at any rate in England. The current version too, is political in a more diffuse way.
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