tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post5481083406488785820..comments2024-03-22T18:43:00.710-04:00Comments on Unam Sanctam Catholicam: New Normal: Subjectifying the Sunday ObligationBonifacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-41564495933968757292020-07-26T11:13:07.301-04:002020-07-26T11:13:07.301-04:00Others can have their QAnon theories, but Holy Mot...Others can have their QAnon theories, but Holy Mother Church has made the judgment to suspend Sunday Obligation and I respect the Church.Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405900624990999433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-43757173284885391822020-07-10T23:01:38.800-04:002020-07-10T23:01:38.800-04:00Well put. Well put. Dashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01499955384365527295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-28832692288497958572020-06-04T14:46:18.970-04:002020-06-04T14:46:18.970-04:00and yes indeed William, in fact pneumonia and othe...and yes indeed William, in fact pneumonia and other respiratory tract causes of death have gone down below normal rates, as covid death count goes up. seems... fishy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-66866813501748743312020-06-04T14:44:22.711-04:002020-06-04T14:44:22.711-04:00Kurt, better stop driving cars then. heck, avoid p...Kurt, better stop driving cars then. heck, avoid public transport, you don't want to know how many germs can get on one bus. in fact, clean every doorknob you see.<br /><br />also, those are the same scientific and medical authorities that tell us that gender is a construct and there is nothing wrong with practicing homosexuality?<br /><br />self-centered fearful conformists people looking to make everyone like themselves need to chill. besides, the rioters are proving the virus isn't that deadly, just like the spring breakers a couple months ago. not to mention, them rioters started the culture war without any ethnonationalist help, all they needed was a stupid white cop doing something blacks more usually do to other blacks.<br /><br />but anyway yeah, just make the monks livestream the masses and sacraments for the vulnerable (like yourself?). an innovation to be sure, but makes much more sense than squirt gun baptisms or drivethru confession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-76779158416068345512020-06-02T22:27:45.645-04:002020-06-02T22:27:45.645-04:00There has always been a risk to health in every ag...There has always been a risk to health in every age, society, time, and place. I drive approx. 20 miles one way to church. That means I have 40 miles of driving round trip wherein I might get into a wreck. Multiply that by at least 52 and it would be easy to argue that I am definitely taking an unreasonable risk regarding not only my safety, but also that of my wife and baby daughter. Yet this is just what everyone did before we were all going to die from a super-duper commie virus. But now it's all different. Now it's scary. Now it's been revealed just how pathetically petrified we all are of catching a cough. BTW people die of coughs too. Since when has death been the worst thing that could happen to a Catholic? Today will go down in Catholic history as the era of the wimps...nothing particularly redeeming about us. Just notable as being impressively wimpy...Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09899467680272996143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-90656876375880111972020-05-24T11:44:07.387-04:002020-05-24T11:44:07.387-04:00true, one must not defy authority, except when God... <i>true, one must not defy authority, except when God's authority needs to be defended above all.</i><br /><br />Exactly. God's authority is not being challenged. God is not commanding us to do actions which may risk our health. Science and medical authorities will continue to inform our Church and civil leaders as they discern this matter. Self-centered ethno-nationalists looking for a culture war need to cool their jets. Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405900624990999433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-14994917195925337902020-05-24T10:40:53.900-04:002020-05-24T10:40:53.900-04:00https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/05...https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/05/20/coronavirus-does-not-spread-easily-surfaces-objects-cdc/5232748002/<br /><br />trust the experts now, Kurt? or do you pick which and when too? besides, livestreams will definitely continue, you can still catch them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-3476631077286483512020-05-24T10:31:45.440-04:002020-05-24T10:31:45.440-04:00^^Kurt, the "science and medicine" quest...^^Kurt, the "science and medicine" question is not settled, specially not if controlled by factions. the WHO itself now switched to the Swedish model that makes masks and lockdowns optional, admitting that the virus was never that bad. compare responses between "experts" in Taiwan and China, between Germany and Italy, between Sweden and Britain. Japan and Korea didn't even go as hard as we are. even in countries we're now told are "bad" (currently Brazil), it's 0.05% deaths. i myself am still waiting for the Florida spring breaker deaths that barely ever happened.<br /><br />at any rate, is being Catholic = doing what the experts say all the time? gee we should just be secular scientistics and religious Zionists then, since those are the ones with authority in those fields. <br /><br />we obey because it's right; not because obedience is right in itself all the time; because you can find yourself obeying the wrong master. true, one must not defy authority, except when God's authority needs to be defended above all. ergo, streaming from monasteries for the sick and letting open masses for the healthy should be okay? people go to supermarkets and face greater risks and more people coming in, while churches are empty most of the time. the priests dropping the host on your tongue is safer than the cashier handling your things, or you touching the drivethru atm. aren't spiritual sustenance and ecclesial worship even more essential?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-43028873415962864172020-05-24T09:17:06.564-04:002020-05-24T09:17:06.564-04:00Science and medicine define safe. Now, extending ...Science and medicine define safe. Now, extending a Protestant world view that every person can pick up the Bible and interpret for himself would be the idea that everyone can make up their own medical standards. Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405900624990999433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-78197839374931275472020-05-23T22:19:55.759-04:002020-05-23T22:19:55.759-04:00the problem Kurt is, what is truly safe? who defin...the problem Kurt is, what is truly safe? who defines it? and, who can keep us safe from the inevitable safety council?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-42674769309988508222020-05-22T20:42:28.161-04:002020-05-22T20:42:28.161-04:00The author's analysis is persuasive, and I'...The author's analysis is persuasive, and I'm convinced that the future it predicts is tragically likely. I've been trying in my own small way to put the brakes on the overall tendency to create Catholicism Lite, but my small way is extremely small and only seems to affect my immediate family.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11093212412982965768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-81641989584319192782020-05-22T15:38:59.267-04:002020-05-22T15:38:59.267-04:00I dunno. Everyone I know who did go to Mass and r...I dunno. Everyone I know who did go to Mass and reads these things from bishops and pastors is anxious to return when safe. For that matter, everyone I know wants to go safely back to their jobs too.Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405900624990999433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-17325266348798851712020-05-21T17:02:07.774-04:002020-05-21T17:02:07.774-04:00i'd argue the lockdown at most made sense for ...i'd argue the lockdown at most made sense for a couple weeks, a month was pushing it. Italy got a lot of repeated videos, but even over there they closed hospital wings. Bergamo was bad but nearby huge Milan not so much. more sensible countries had more balanced approaches, some certainly interestingly open (Belarus, Sweden), others with only some controls (Taiwan, Japan for a while). then again i was always skeptical to a degree, specially when i saw the thousands of spring breakers not dying out nor spreading disease massively when they had to return home due to classes being out. certainly the virus is real, however the amount of asymptomatics being so massive indicated it is only dangerous for some. normally we would toss it in the bin of "modern respiratory infectious diseases", keep only the vulnerable locked down with pay and service if needed, and move on. can't believe the Church folded on public worship so easily, almost as if in tune... and goodness knows we've had both public confession before, as well as masses more ridiculous than a drivethru mass (wouldn't surprise me if a priest did it in the 70s lol).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-883533250680744562020-05-19T21:31:34.342-04:002020-05-19T21:31:34.342-04:00I have been annoyed so many times with that phrase...I have been annoyed so many times with that phrase "new normal", almost since it started being used. To me it sounds like people who don't want the "old normal" and are rather enjoying the effort to change it. We need to be suspicious of anyone who uses it. In 1918 we had a pandemic, people quarantined and wore masks, etc. It took four years to really get over it, but that didn't change "normal". Normal is normal and it should be a goal, not given up as if half the planet broke off and floated away.<br /><br />I personally felt quarantine was justified, and based on what we knew (Wuhan and Italy) locking down seemed warranted. Who knows. It's so easy now to say it wasn't. We should be extremely cautious, I don't blow off this virus. I think it's very serious for many people of varying ages. Even children are now getting inflammatory diseases and a few have died. <br /><br />When the church allowed the Holy Mass and the sacraments to be deemed "non-essential", that was a defining moment. No bishop should ever have allowed that to happen, let alone a pope. To judge the contemporary church by the ancient church is a shocking comparison, because there is no comparison. The men of old were real priests and the church was a real church, the church, that God intended. They have made of her a laughingstock, a shell. She has been hollowed out intentionally. The actual Catholic church would not have stopped public Mass, and they certainly would not allow Holy Mass to be called "non-essential". The men today want it to be non-essential. They probably like that term, many of them. <br />For my part, and I'm nobody, believe me, I don't worry anymore about Mass or anything. I know God is in His heaven, and He looks after me (us). I have zero respect for what is called the Catholic church today. We can't demand faithful priests and bishops and get them. They are a joke. When the men who run the church from the pope on down in large numbers don't want and don't practice Catholicism, this is where you end up, as a non-essential entity. Evangelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795851343763536594noreply@blogger.com