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Showing posts with label heresy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heresy. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2014
If You Are.....
Anonymous,
A supporter of ACTA,
A placer of flowers on heathen altars,
Someone who thinks there are two sides to any moral question, other than the right and the wrong,
Fond of saying, "Two wrongs don't make a right.",
An unbeliever in Transubstantiation,
A smirking, hurting, permanent-waved, de-habited nun,
A lover of liturgical experiment,
Proud of being homosexual, lesbian, whatever,
Convinced that the words of the Son of God are of less weight (in such matters as divorce, Divine Justice, or Transubstantiation, to name only a few) than the opinions of politicians, journalists, Tina Beattie, Greg Pope, Basil Loftus, Grant Toilets or any other public pundit,
An idiot,
Then do not waste pixels and electricity commenting here. Instead, be so good as to spit up your left trouser leg and betake yourself to The Hermeneutic of Cool, Bishop Smirk's very own blog. He is so lonely, that there you can post comments to your heart's content.
Understood?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Malignant Tendency
The Malignant Tendency
The quasi Catholics arise
And buckle to the fray.
Their weapons: nuances and lies,
But the strongest: our dismay.
Nightmares they are - open our eyes -
The light drives them away.
Their day is done. Their murky creeds,
Blinded by envy, stumble.
On barren land they sow their seeds
Whose ashy fruit will crumble.
Their only god, their ego, needs
One shove - then watch it tumble.
Like vampires, zombies, ghouls, or such,
In some drab horror film,
In the Tablet's stale and bitter hutch,
They haunt the grisly realm
Where slobbering ranks of undead clutch
At the Church they'd overwhelm.
Frail wraiths, they anger us too much.
We wonder, "Why do they stay?"
To join the humanists, prods, or such,
Would make their dismal day.
I'd like to kick their Kungian cr***h,
But nobly turn away.
The quasi Catholics arise
And buckle to the fray.
Their weapons: nuances and lies,
But the strongest: our dismay.
Nightmares they are - open our eyes -
The light drives them away.
Their day is done. Their murky creeds,
Blinded by envy, stumble.
On barren land they sow their seeds
Whose ashy fruit will crumble.
Their only god, their ego, needs
One shove - then watch it tumble.
Like vampires, zombies, ghouls, or such,
In some drab horror film,
In the Tablet's stale and bitter hutch,
They haunt the grisly realm
Where slobbering ranks of undead clutch
At the Church they'd overwhelm.
Frail wraiths, they anger us too much.
We wonder, "Why do they stay?"
To join the humanists, prods, or such,
Would make their dismal day.
I'd like to kick their Kungian cr***h,
But nobly turn away.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Newman's Own Words - H/T The Tenth Crusade!
“Everyone in the Church, ignorant or learned, must absolutely submit his mind with an inward assent to the Church as the teacher of the whole Faith.” Or again: “It is no trouble to believe, when the Church has spoken; the real trouble is when a number of little popes start up, laymen often, and preach against Bishops and priests, and make their own opinions the faith, and frighten simple-minded devout people and drive back inquirers.”
From
From
Newman and the Laity
PAUL CHAVASSEThursday, July 26, 2012
Not Very Snug, I'm Afraid.
Looking desperately for some reason to feel optimistic about the future of the Catholic Church in Europe, I am close to despair. We have, apparently, a heretic leading the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Where to turn to find the truth now?
If the Catholic Church were a business, it would be now on its financial knees.
What to do, apart from praying?
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
An Act of Faith
Lord, I believe in You and all that Your Church teaches, because You have said it and Your Word is true.
I remember those words from A Simple Prayer Book.
When, or if, we say that we believe in all that the Church teaches, are we thinking of what the Church has always taught, or the kind on 'nuancing' indulged in by ++s Nichols (speaking of mortal sin), Muller (writing about Our Lady's perpetual virginity and about Transubstantiation), and others whose names I cannot recall?
Or, to put it more flatly, whom is the simple layman to trust, because for the life of me, I do not know.
I remember those words from A Simple Prayer Book.
When, or if, we say that we believe in all that the Church teaches, are we thinking of what the Church has always taught, or the kind on 'nuancing' indulged in by ++s Nichols (speaking of mortal sin), Muller (writing about Our Lady's perpetual virginity and about Transubstantiation), and others whose names I cannot recall?
Or, to put it more flatly, whom is the simple layman to trust, because for the life of me, I do not know.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Favourite Hymns - er - NO!
"Let us break bread together on our knees"
We forgot to pack the bread-knife.
We forgot to pack the bread-knife.
Monday, February 7, 2011
MAY THEY DROWN IN THEIR OWN ENURESIS BAGS
Yup, the f*ckw*ts' forum is at it again, as reported in the Catholic Herald.http://disq.us/12wgna. I quote in full.
More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland have called for the Church to end priestly celibacy, ordain women and allow lay people to help select bishops, among other changes.
The 143 professors said their appeal was made in response to the clergy sexual abuse scandals that surfaced in Europe last year and that they no longer could remain silent in the face of what they say is a lingering crisis within the Catholic Church.
The theologians, who also called for the Church to welcome same-sex couples and divorced and remarried couples, said their statement was issued to open a discussion about the future of the Church.
“We have the responsibility to contribute to a new start,” the statement said.
Judith Konemann, a professor from Munster and one of the signatories, told the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung: “It looks like we struck a nerve.”
Most of the changes sought by the theologians have no chance of being adopted by the Catholic Church. The Church teaches that it has no right to ordain women to the priesthood, and that any sexual activity outside of marriage, understood to be between a woman and a man only, is sinful.
Regarding divorce and remarriage, in the Catholic Church civil divorce doesn’t exclude one from the sacraments. A person cannot receive the sacraments if he or she remarries outside the Church while still bound by a previous marriage.
The German bishops’ conference said it would discuss the proposals at a meeting in March. Pope Benedict XVI will visit his native Germany on September 22 to 25.
The theologians’ appeal comes two weeks after a group of prominent German politicians urged the bishops to ordain older married men because of the dwindling number of priests.
The German bishops have said two-thirds of all parishes will not have their own priest by 2020 and have embarked on an effort to merge parishes in response.
The statement said that enacting the reforms would attract people back to the Church.
“The Church needs married priests and women in Church ministry,” the theologians said. The Church should not “shut out people who live in love, loyalty and mutual support as same-sex couples or remarried divorced people”, they said.
The professors also questioned actions by Pope Benedict that have brought back older worship practices. “The liturgy must not be frozen in traditionalism,” they said.
Perhaps they are not the aged would-be hippies my title suggests, but I wish them, as my mother-in-law used to say, in Hanover, where no doubt some of them are.
A pox on them! (Shakespeare, who may have been a Catholic)
More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland have called for the Church to end priestly celibacy, ordain women and allow lay people to help select bishops, among other changes.
The 143 professors said their appeal was made in response to the clergy sexual abuse scandals that surfaced in Europe last year and that they no longer could remain silent in the face of what they say is a lingering crisis within the Catholic Church.
The theologians, who also called for the Church to welcome same-sex couples and divorced and remarried couples, said their statement was issued to open a discussion about the future of the Church.
“We have the responsibility to contribute to a new start,” the statement said.
Judith Konemann, a professor from Munster and one of the signatories, told the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung: “It looks like we struck a nerve.”
Most of the changes sought by the theologians have no chance of being adopted by the Catholic Church. The Church teaches that it has no right to ordain women to the priesthood, and that any sexual activity outside of marriage, understood to be between a woman and a man only, is sinful.
Regarding divorce and remarriage, in the Catholic Church civil divorce doesn’t exclude one from the sacraments. A person cannot receive the sacraments if he or she remarries outside the Church while still bound by a previous marriage.
The German bishops’ conference said it would discuss the proposals at a meeting in March. Pope Benedict XVI will visit his native Germany on September 22 to 25.
The theologians’ appeal comes two weeks after a group of prominent German politicians urged the bishops to ordain older married men because of the dwindling number of priests.
The German bishops have said two-thirds of all parishes will not have their own priest by 2020 and have embarked on an effort to merge parishes in response.
The statement said that enacting the reforms would attract people back to the Church.
“The Church needs married priests and women in Church ministry,” the theologians said. The Church should not “shut out people who live in love, loyalty and mutual support as same-sex couples or remarried divorced people”, they said.
The professors also questioned actions by Pope Benedict that have brought back older worship practices. “The liturgy must not be frozen in traditionalism,” they said.
Perhaps they are not the aged would-be hippies my title suggests, but I wish them, as my mother-in-law used to say, in Hanover, where no doubt some of them are.
A pox on them! (Shakespeare, who may have been a Catholic)
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Penny Cathechism: "Is Death Terrible?" "Yes, Death Is Terrible"
Why is the following so sickening, at least to me? You can, or could, buy it printed on a laminated card in the bookshop at Westminster Cathedral. It is about being dead.
I think it may be heretical.
"I have only slipped away into the next room"
The popular passage comes from a sermon on death written by Scott Holland and entitled `The King of Terrors.' He delivered it in St. Paul's on 15 May 1910), at which time the body of King Edward VII was lying in state at Westminster. The context is important:
'Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!'
So the face speaks. Surely while we speak there is a smile flitting over it; a smile as of gentle fun at the trick played us by seeming death...'
The sermon was published posthumously in a collection entitled Facts of the Faith (Longmans, 1919
I think it may be heretical.
"I have only slipped away into the next room"
The popular passage comes from a sermon on death written by Scott Holland and entitled `The King of Terrors.' He delivered it in St. Paul's on 15 May 1910), at which time the body of King Edward VII was lying in state at Westminster. The context is important:
'Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!'
So the face speaks. Surely while we speak there is a smile flitting over it; a smile as of gentle fun at the trick played us by seeming death...'
The sermon was published posthumously in a collection entitled Facts of the Faith (Longmans, 1919
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