Author Topic: A serious question (Read 3305 times)

TKGS · « **Reply #5 on:** November 06, 2012, 06:25:15 AM »

Bishop Williamson has praised Poem of the Mangod before. It was years ago and, I think, while he was in Argentina and before he was ever ordered to shut down his weekly newsletter. There was, at the time, a lot of chatter on email forums about the poem.

Frankly, the only person I have respect for that ever praised Poem of the Mangod is Bishop Williamson.

However, I have not read it nor do I plan to read it, not just because he is in the minority, but because the other people who were praising it were radical Modernists and John Paul 2 fantatics. (Though I was absolutely not sedevacantist at the time, I was absolutely certain that John Paul was not "Great".)

JuanDiego · « **Reply #6 on:** November 06, 2012, 07:38:37 AM »

I went to a retreat years ago in Connecticut and the priests there came through the seminary under Bishop Williamson, and they recommended the Poem, so I bought it, but have not read it because I keep hearing things about it that are so bad. Those priests said the same thing that the Bishop just said: read it to your children each day. So, I believe he has been recommending it for years, and spoke about it to his seminary students in the same way he just recommended it to the readers of EC.

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #7 on:** November 06, 2012, 08:22:36 AM »

Anything associated with my crazy novus ordo grandmother, and after reading what TIA had to say about it, :barf:, how can anyone recommend such a thing unless they are either very delusional (like my ecuмenical "I want my family to be a UN" grandmother), someone who doesn't know what it contains, and has only seen "good" snippets, or someone that is not bothered by disrespectful drivel, not to mention outright blasphemy written about Our Lord and Our Lady.

MauricePinay · « **Reply #8 on:** November 06, 2012, 02:17:10 PM »

Below is a link to a recording of a talk given by Fr. Robinson promoting "The Poem." What interested me most is that Fr. Robinson says that his initial reaction to "The Poem" was negative but that Bp. Williamson insisted that he persist in reading it.

Sadly, he states that Bp. Williamson stakes his theological reputation on "The Poem" being free from error. He says that Bp. Williamson has stated he would ordain any man to the priesthood who reads "The Poem" because he believes it contains an entire seminary curriculum within it (something I find unsettling in light of Bp. Williamson's recent statement about making his bishop's powers available "to anyone who will use them wisely").

Fr. Robinson has said that he has looked at every objection to "The Poem" but he nor any of "the Poem's" apologists have answered to its outrageous depiction of Christ venerating the Pharisee and father of rabbinic Judaism, Hillel; just as The Angelus administration never answered for the similarly outrage in "Saint of the Sanhedrin."

http://www.advancedchristianity.com/Mp3/MPC/Father_Robinson/2008-05-03_Maria_Valtorta.mp3

guitarplucker · « **Reply #9 on:** November 06, 2012, 04:39:10 PM »

Quote from: MauricePinay

Below is a link to a recording of a talk given by Fr. Robinson promoting "The Poem." What interested me most is that Fr. Robinson says that his initial reaction to "The Poem" was negative but that Bp. Williamson insisted that he persist in reading it.

Sadly, he states that Bp. Williamson stakes his theological reputation on "The Poem" being free from error. He says that Bp. Williamson has stated he would ordain any man to the priesthood who reads "The Poem" because he believes it contains an entire seminary curriculum within it (something I find unsettling in light of Bp. Williamson's recent statement about making his bishop's powers available "to anyone who will use them wisely").

Fr. Robinson has said that he has looked at every objection to "The Poem" but he nor any of "the Poem's" apologists have answered to its outrageous depiction of Christ venerating the Pharisee and father of rabbinic Judaism, Hillel; just as The Angelus administration never answered for the similarly outrage in "Saint of the Sanhedrin."

http://www.advancedchristianity.com/Mp3/MPC/Father_Robinson/2008-05-03_Maria_Valtorta.mp3

Thanks for the info. It's a paradox that Bp. Williamson likes such a book and yet clearly refuses to bow down to the Jews.