Gregorius

“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!” —Luke 12:49

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"[N]othing can provoke love more than to know that one is loved." St. Thomas, De rationibus fidei, c. 5

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@FrCharles All natural truths can be known in the beatific vision in any case

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Union of Econe?

[Archbishop Jayden A.M. Hagood @FatherHagood]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Statement by the Metropolitan and Primus of the English Catholic Church and Communion, Archbishop Jayden A.M. Hagood regarding the Consecrations by the Society of St. Pius X (@FSSPXFR) today in Ecône, Switzerland.

Archbishop Lefebvre, ora pro nobis.
Saint Gregory the Great, ora pro nobis.
Saint Padre Pio, ora pro nobis.

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@MLJHaynes Bro is just saying words and making shit up

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@FrPBehm You’re right father, that is the right question.

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@MLJHaynes The larp is crazy

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@StMichael71 Best Roman basilica

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@ModernBoethius @BreeSolstad The correct thing is to listen to *your* bishop; regional collectives of bishops as such do not have teaching authority.

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@xBuffaloAnth Lowly Worm

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@Thomisticae Skill issue. Cf. All the Ecclesia Dei communities

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@Thomisticae So true; wherever there is cognition there is desire

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It appears the SSPX is utterly incapable of subtlety in their thinking and distinction-making when it comes to Vatican II

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@FrCharles A while ago I was joking that we should start divvying up the ocean to create more titular sees. Perhaps I wasn’t too far off

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@hf_222222 Many dioceses have seminarians on ‘pastoral year’ doing that

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@DrAseemMalhotra

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@TARSRel0aded I’m afraid you didn’t dive deep enough, brother

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@cath_menarion Supposedly they have a mandate from ‘Eternal Rome’

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"basic goods"

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.

He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.

Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."

This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.

Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?

Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.

But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.

If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.

If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?

One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.

Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?

What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.

Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.

The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.

Link to the article below.

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@DavidPaternostr Perhaps you should write it and tell us!

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@Charles_Reding Difficult to keep up with which digital media should be placed on the Index