Michael Cunningham

Left-liberal | Ethical Humanist | Existentialist.
Interested in theology, philosophy, and political theory.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica That's not a theological denial but it's a practical permission to do exactly what HV prohibits. Never condemned by Rome. Still the formal guidance of the Canadian conference.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica The Winnipeg Statement (1968), paragraph 26, explicitly states that Catholics who have formed their conscience through prayer and reflection and cannot accept Humanae Vitae's conclusions may follow their conscience without moral guilt...

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica if a national bishops' conference issues formal pastoral guidance qualifying a non-infallible encyclical, and Rome doesn't condemn it, on what theological basis exactly is that guidance "irrelevant"? Or to be disregarded.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica Shouldn't a Canadian Catholic need to submit to the current teaching of their bishops' conference over an obscure encyclical? Especially since it's clearly articulated in The Winnipeg Statement of 1968? A document never condemned by the Vatican, yada yada.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@PopePiusIXStan How novel

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@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica Nor an infallible teaching of the Church

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

We need a KJV only movement, but for David Bentley Hart's translation.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica Sometimes I like to cite it just to see what happens.. "Are all methods of regulating birth of equal value to the Christian conscience? The council gave no answer to this question."

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@AGiurispru80537 @theoscholastica You're telling me this wasn't the Pinnacle?

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@joaosilveiraaa That's no way to grace farm.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

This is no way to grace farm. Three tents full of priests celebrating "individually," praying Mass literally right next to each other... Should be taking turns as sole celebrant while the others attend. That's how you grace max.

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

From 4:00 a.m. onwards, each priest can celebrate his own Mass in one of the three tents set up with several altars. This was one of them.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

Bring up Origen or any Church Father outside Augustine to a certain kind of Latin rite Catholic and watch them turn into some sort of confused Voldemort: "Old magic… something I should have foreseen."

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@GeoffKlein3 Boring. That Mary is alive in Heaven isn't even rejected by anyone but dolts. The more interesting question is if Mary is still a woman.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@retardedsinner @gonefishin1948 The object of the consent is the good, not the evil. The "accident" is what you hit, not what you aimed at.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@gonefishin1948 More than a few.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@retardedsinner @gonefishin1948 It's nearly impossible to argue that the second and third conditions are usually present unless one contradicts the teachings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, or employs an Orwellian revision of definitions.

Harder to say whether or not they ever are.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@henryjkwallis @agostino_harry @MadocCairns This is true of course. It makes me wonder whether evangelical movements or mainstream American Christianity across denominational lines is Christianity at all. A sociologist would say it is, but I don't know how relevant that is spiritually/theologically.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

@sushifries_1 That's a disingenuous point. They didn't always have them.

[Michael Cunningham @MichaelRCunning]

I miss Pope Francis. I'm sure he'll be canonized in our lifetime