Author Topic: Chris Ferrara: The good and the bad in LS. (Read 2398 times)

BTNYC · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2015, 02:23:42 PM »

Quote from: Ladislaus

When one mixes good and bad, the net overall assessment is bad.

That's how the devil works ... by mixing good and bad. Otherwise it would be too obvious and not have its intended effect.

Great point.

I'm flummoxed by Catholics (our own Poche among them) who find cause for celebration in the fact that a purpoted papal encyclical contains some good in it. Talk about damning with faint praise.

Quote from: Nishant

One wonders whether a docuмent not specifically addressed to the universal Church but instead directed to "all people of good will" can be considered to have the same force as a Papal Encyclical in the traditional sense of the word?

Indeed. One wonders much the same thing about an ecuмenical council that claimed not to do what ecuмenical councils do (define dogmas and condemn errors) and claimed not to be what an ecuмentical council by very nature is (a function of the Extraordinary Magisterium).

BTNYC · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2015, 02:38:12 PM »

Quote from: Alexandria

Not to worry. Father Z assures us that there is some good in it. All is well. :rolleyes:

Damage control and white washers I have developed zero tolerance for. :smash-pc:

Mark my words. He will turn this into some kind of merchandise to shill (t-shirts and mugs that say "We'll follow Laudato Si When you Follow Humanae Vitae" or something similar) before the Summer is over.

Has anyone seen his banner petitioning Francis to name John Paul II a Doctor of the Church in 2016? I ought to thank him for that; I haven't laughed so hard in years.

Quick bit of googling revealed his "petition" for this insane cause. It's the cherry on this comedy sundae: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/04/petition-to-pope-francis-declare-st-john-paul-ii-doctor-of-the-church/

He posted it on April 12 (11 days later than it should have been posted, IMO).

"Hashtags" too!

#JP2ForDoctor
#Lolek4Doctor

:roll-laugh1:

TKGS · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2015, 03:17:31 PM »

Isn't Christopher Ferrara the man who counsels Catholics to completely avoid EWTN because it has some good and some bad in it?

I'd say the same should apply to Bergoglio: Completely avoid him.

clare · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2015, 09:39:22 AM »

Here is a pretty good bit:

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105. There is a tendency to believe that every increase in power means “an increase of ‘progress’ itself”, an advance in “security, usefulness, welfare and vigour; …an assimilation of new values into the stream of culture”,[83] as if reality, goodness and truth automatically flow from technological and economic power as such. The fact is that “contemporary man has not been trained to use power well”,[84] because our immense technological development has not been accompanied by a development in human responsibility, values and conscience.