Author Topic: "immense pile of filth" (Read 2479 times)

Marlelar · « **on:** June 18, 2015, 05:31:24 PM »

"It's a blunt, readable booklet full of zingers that will make many conservatives and climate doubters squirm, including in the U.S. Congress, where Francis will deliver the first-ever papal address in September."

Since when are encyclicals "full of zingers"? Did Pius X write "zingers"?

I suspect Francis and the NO church will become even more irrelevant after this one gets around.

I downloaded a pdf from papal encyclicals dot net but have not yet had the stomach to read it.

TKGS · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2015, 08:58:49 PM »

:wink:

Quote from: Marlelar

Since when are encyclicals "full of zingers"?

I don't know. I always kind of thought the Syllabus of Errors was pretty much a list of zingers against the Modernists. :wink: :wink:

poche · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2015, 10:35:03 PM »

I always thought that Pope Leo's Rerum Novarum was a good starting point for studying morality and the economy.

Marlelar · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2015, 02:19:00 AM »

Webster: zinger: : a quick and clever comment that criticizes or insults someone.

The Syllabus was a list or errors (sins), the Pope wanted to lead people away from hell.

Francis states his purpose thus:

"In this Encyclical, I would like to enter into dialogue with all people about our common home. (paragraph 3).

It's almost 200 pages of "dialogue".

Stubborn · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2015, 02:50:00 AM »

Quote from: Marlelar

I downloaded a pdf from papal encyclicals dot net but have not yet had the stomach to read it.

The whole idea bespeaks that the encyclical itself is the immense pile of filth.

I would not bother to read it, the whole idea is depressing enough, no sense torturing yourself by reading it - as Fr. Wathen states it when he was talking about V2 docuмents; "We said above that it is not important what the wording of the decrees is, since no one bothers to read them anymore - something totally unsurprising, since they were not meant to be read, only generically referred to."