Deacon Douglas McManaman

Deacon of the Archdiocese of Toronto

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis I understand. But I’m arguing that it’s way more complicated than you seem to realize. We have a much more difficult case to make. I’m not sure we made it.

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis that “creeping infallibility” is a dangerous thing (as is throwing around the label “heretic”). Haven’t we learned the lessons of history, in particular the Reformation, not to needlessly create enemies for ourselves?

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis If I were asked to explain how this reversal–not to mention the many others in our history–is consistent with the principle that ordinary papal claims should not be challenged, I’d have a hard time. I embrace this “development” on the death penalty, which suggests

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis I agree with that “development”. It is in fact a reversal. But that only makes matters more complicated, not less. Given the historical reversals I alluded to above, challenges from people like Feser are not to be scorned, but listened to (Synodality?)

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis death penalty is justified, but if Francis is right, then he must disagree with your principle. If Innocent III and Pius XII were right, then again your principle is problematic. Either way, we need to cut people like Feser some slack.

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis Yes, but it is not always so easy to determine whether a papal claim actually expresses the mind of the Church, as the examples of Pope Honorius, Pope John XXII, Pope Nicholas I, Pope Vigilius, Pope Innocent III, Pope Pius IX, Pope Nicholas V help to show. I don’t think the

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

We spend years
building our lives
on rotten foundations.

It takes years
to build new foundations
for a new life.

— Marion Woodman, Dreams: Language of the Soul

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

https://t.co/SWdcbvb9uw

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

Some hard truths from Jung.

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

On the painful psychospiritual shift from an ego-oriented life to the greater transpersonal adventure.

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

Jungian, Edward Edinger with a reminder to, 'be the change you wish to see in the world'.

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

There is no sense talking about 'being true to yourself' until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

— Marion Woodman

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

[Thea @TheaEuryphaessa]

A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding.

— Krishnamurti

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

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[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis A letter very different in tone than the letter Küng received in 1975 and the two before that. Leo is a pastorally prudent pope who knows how to communicate.

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis would have no problem with many of Luther’s reforms. As for others, there’s nothing that a more listening Church (synodal) could not overcome. Luther does not come across as a stubborn radical traditionalist.

[Deacon Douglas McManaman @DeaconDougM]

@mfjlewis believe I reacted that way 30 years ago and made such and such a decision. How foolish I was”. We learn from experience and grow. The Church of the 16th century was very different, with a very different understanding of what constitutes an abuse of authority. The Church today