tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8227593933669182935..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The Pope ResignsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-18482042120680589992013-02-18T21:04:04.448-05:002013-02-18T21:04:04.448-05:00"Have you and your readers not noticed that f..."Have you and your readers not noticed that for more than a century and a half the Popes have been consistently of irreproachable character and quite heroic virtue: veritable saints on all accounts!"<br /><br />The Jews of Rome might have a thing or two to say about Pius IX.<br /><br />Adolph Mengele was very grateful to Pius XII for a place to lay low, and for those tickets to Argentina. Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-54069751707466449712013-02-18T20:58:08.734-05:002013-02-18T20:58:08.734-05:00"Take note and change your tune! Get with the..."Take note and change your tune! Get with the times! The French Revolution is over! It is time to criticize the governments that have been trashing and killing priests for two centuries rather than promoting their anti-Papal/anti-God biases."<br /><br />The French Revolution is indeed over... and so are the Middle Ages.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-39429753354216611772013-02-18T11:37:29.547-05:002013-02-18T11:37:29.547-05:00Your Pope bashing is unjust and out of date and qu...Your Pope bashing is unjust and out of date and quite worldly: a cheap reflection of the in vogue political correctness (with it's historical origins in the worst elements of the Enlightenment) with very little to do with the Judeo-Christian tradition, despite the veneer of "honesty" and being "true christians."<br /><br />Have you and your readers not noticed that for more than a century and a half the Popes have been consistently of irreproachable character and quite heroic virtue: veritable saints on all accounts! Eight of the eleven past Popes have some title to that effect: e.g. Servant of God Pope John Paul I! This is a trend which the world has not seen since the first centuries of Christianity (and the early middle ages).<br /><br />Take note and change your tune! Get with the times! The French Revolution is over! It is time to criticize the governments that have been trashing and killing priests for two centuries rather than promoting their anti-Papal/anti-God biases.plinthoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727933805185400769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-50043840956382526612013-02-14T09:14:26.923-05:002013-02-14T09:14:26.923-05:00Great to hear from you again Pastor Harbaugh. I&#...Great to hear from you again Pastor Harbaugh. I'm delighted that you found my blog!Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-86874144598231293242013-02-13T21:49:50.698-05:002013-02-13T21:49:50.698-05:00Hello Doug,
Ashen greetings for Lent. Your comme...Hello Doug, <br />Ashen greetings for Lent. Your comments are spot on. I suppose giving up the chair of Peter for Lent must be one helluva discipline, maybe he'll be back for the Great Vigil?!?<br /><br />Seriously, I concur they're are no liberals; the V-II spirit is about to die out it seems. Here in Iowa I have trouble getting "the Roman" priests to believe we're the same religion.<br /><br />The only hope for RCism might be an A. Romero sort of figure who will turn over the defence of the church to Peter's Boss, whose compassion reached to so-called outsiders forgotten by the powerful.<br /><br />I've enjoyed Will's writings in theology, but I think he's wrong on this issue. The antidote to poor priesting is priests accountable to the people they serve. The "my sacrifice and yours" at the offertory of the Mass enshrines an inadequate and incomplete theology of priesthood and church in its holiest rite. Wills walks the priests off a narrow plank if all they are are Jesus-dispensers. The Eucharist, while the chief place, is not the only place where priests intercede to God on behalf of church and world. <br />I'll leave it at that. Who'da thought back in the 80's and 90's that something called a "blog" would be a way for us to communicate!<br /><br />Blessings,<br /><br /><br /><br />Pr. James Harbaugh STShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667025102176507407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-70583317393596276402013-02-11T16:34:33.087-05:002013-02-11T16:34:33.087-05:00I hope you are right JCF, but I wouldn't bet t...I hope you are right JCF, but I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-70525398453342607872013-02-11T16:29:29.441-05:002013-02-11T16:29:29.441-05:00Ironically, however, the ONLY thing Benedict XVI w...Ironically, however, the ONLY thing Benedict XVI will have done worthwhile, is his abdication: a welcome (modern) precedent. God bless him in his retirement . . . and keep his theological/ecclesiological/political influence FAR away from the RCC! (Or anywhere else)JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-26097076361777764922013-02-11T16:27:09.565-05:002013-02-11T16:27:09.565-05:00[Oh lookee, Sad Brad is back. A man distinguished ...[Oh lookee, Sad Brad is back. A man distinguished by NEVER being missed when he's gone.]<br /><br />Well, Doug, I refuse to give up hope for a miracle.<br /><br />I don't think there's any such think as <i>Homo homophobus</i> or <i>Homo wingnuttius</i>. There are only <i>Homo sapiens</i>, w/ varying belief-systems (some of them disastrously PATHOLOGICAL).<br /><br />A member of this group, <i>Homo sapiens</i>, will be elected Bishop of Rome (though sadly, Yet Another of the XY subset >:-/).<br /><br /><i>Homo sapiens</i> are capable of radical change---Yes, even change for-the-BETTER.<br /><br />And I pray that's what happens in Rome. No matter how homophobic, how wingnutty the "winner" appears, I pray he will be/come different. Actually carry out the will of Christ, not the will of the Father-of-Lies, for a refreshing CHANGE!!!!JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.com