tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post3841375136919401367..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Boundaries not yet falling in pleasant places....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-62633581510056310582012-04-16T07:05:10.206-05:002012-04-16T07:05:10.206-05:00They did have to bring the cardinal from Boston to...They did have to bring the cardinal from Boston to the Vatican to protect him from arrest. To their way of thinking, that probably looks like an infringement on their right to govern themselves and fears like this are only a small step further.drkricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-20791470058506898992012-04-15T02:35:02.009-05:002012-04-15T02:35:02.009-05:00Well-said, Thought Criminal.
If "the Faithfu...Well-said, Thought Criminal.<br /><br />If "the Faithful" stopped funding them, how quickly would this immoral, increasingly hysterical regime collapse, I wonder?JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-64635373363369237032012-04-12T12:58:49.053-05:002012-04-12T12:58:49.053-05:00I can understand Ratzinger not quite believing tha...I can understand Ratzinger not quite believing that a democracy can resist the fantasy dystopia scenario that Burke pushes. I strongly suspect that it is part of a partisan political attack on Barack Obama and Democrats in favor of Republicans. Of course, the irony of this is that it was under Ronald Reagan that an American president illegally supported governments in Central America that murdered Catholic lay people, women religious, priests and even an Arch Bishop for practicing Catholicism, with the tacit support of Cardinal Ratzinger and John Paul II. And if anyone think's that's an exaggeration, they should review the reception of Archbishop Oscar Romero in Rome when he went to beg for help in ending the slaughter in El Salvador. <br /><br />The incumbent Pope is so morally compromised, along with large numbers of the bishops he and his predecessor appointed, that what they say is bound to be morally irrelevant and open to being suspected of political corruption. I know a number of very serious Catholics who ignore them and who resent their political machinations. The scandal is what the hierarchy does, not that the people have moved away from their neo-feudal pronouncements.The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com