Not bad advice, but since when was the confessional for reporting the sins of others instead of your own?.Of course, Francis sees through this in his administration of penance.
Being liberal, in the sense of abandoning what has been, is not the mission of the church — that isn’t even intelligent liberalism, just as mindlessly holding to the past and changing nothing is intelligent conservatism..The Pope is in the position of a ship’s captain on a rough sea: to keep the ship whole, on the course given it, without losing the cargo entrusted to it. He can manage the ship by adjusting its course as the winds and the seas change, sometimes going all ahead full and sometimes not, but always mindful of its final goal..It ain’t easy. There have been good captains and others who were no better than pirates; at the moment, the church has been blessed with a really good one.
waykirk1I had Albert Outler for systematic theology (along with John Deshner, whose dissertation on Wesley changed the theology of his advisor, Karl Barth), the official Methodist observer at Vatican II. Francis and John XXIII were the only popes of my rather long lifetime for which I had much regard.
We are not against family planning. We are against chemical neutering of women, and treating both men and women as if they had no self-control. It is far better to use discipline, communication, consensus and mutual encouragement—and the divorce numbers reflect it.
It is interesting that, 80 years ago, NO christian churches accepted abortion as good, and most saw contraceptives as wrong. The Catholic Church is one of the few that still believes and teaches its Gospel principles.
Kali39 over 8 years ago
Good luck, Your Holiness. We’ve been trying to resolve this for a couple of centuries now…
pelican47 over 8 years ago
Not bad advice, but since when was the confessional for reporting the sins of others instead of your own?.Of course, Francis sees through this in his administration of penance.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 8 years ago
Settle this dispute with canons.
peter0423 over 8 years ago
Being liberal, in the sense of abandoning what has been, is not the mission of the church — that isn’t even intelligent liberalism, just as mindlessly holding to the past and changing nothing is intelligent conservatism..The Pope is in the position of a ship’s captain on a rough sea: to keep the ship whole, on the course given it, without losing the cargo entrusted to it. He can manage the ship by adjusting its course as the winds and the seas change, sometimes going all ahead full and sometimes not, but always mindful of its final goal..It ain’t easy. There have been good captains and others who were no better than pirates; at the moment, the church has been blessed with a really good one.
hippogriff over 8 years ago
waykirk1I had Albert Outler for systematic theology (along with John Deshner, whose dissertation on Wesley changed the theology of his advisor, Karl Barth), the official Methodist observer at Vatican II. Francis and John XXIII were the only popes of my rather long lifetime for which I had much regard.
Jim Kerner over 8 years ago
This Jew also feels that this Pope is doing a fine job. Keep it up your holiness. And you to, Patrick J. Marrin.
3pibgorn9 over 8 years ago
Me, too.
Lots of luck, your Holiness. That’s what it will take.
bmonk over 8 years ago
We are not against family planning. We are against chemical neutering of women, and treating both men and women as if they had no self-control. It is far better to use discipline, communication, consensus and mutual encouragement—and the divorce numbers reflect it.
bmonk over 8 years ago
It is interesting that, 80 years ago, NO christian churches accepted abortion as good, and most saw contraceptives as wrong. The Catholic Church is one of the few that still believes and teaches its Gospel principles.