tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post134044443218846406..comments2024-03-22T18:43:00.710-04:00Comments on Unam Sanctam Catholicam: The Battle Lines Have ChangedBonifacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-35182103843805513772020-07-04T14:00:46.769-04:002020-07-04T14:00:46.769-04:00If I might eco my friend Dave Armstrong's sent...If I might eco my friend Dave Armstrong's sentiments. I agree it is a good article and most if not all my disputes these days are with atheists and agnostics and or the odd self confessed Deist who denies the resurrection. <br /><br />I find I am more likely to argue the self contradictory nature of Positivism with somebody than I am so argue the self contradictory nature of Sola Scriptura. Thought most Atheist like my former Fundamentalist opponents seem to still have a Fundamentalists mentality of the Bible.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-88856264178165335452020-05-04T13:21:18.959-04:002020-05-04T13:21:18.959-04:00Don't speak for people whom you've never m...Don't speak for people whom you've never met.<br />Traditional Catholics simply keep the true faith alive during this emergency,including our Priests Bishops Nuns and <br />Seminarians.<br />God bless<br />AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-48250476320272663402020-03-17T07:21:16.892-04:002020-03-17T07:21:16.892-04:00Faith is not mere orthodoxy, it is not mere intell...Faith is not mere orthodoxy, it is not mere intellectual assent to doctrinal formulas or intellectual obedience to church authority.<br /><br />The "liberals", or whatever you call them, are perfectly right in saying that faith is essentially a personal and living relationship with God. The measure of a man's faith is not how orthodox he is (since then those who hold doctorates in systematic theology would have greater faith, since they know more doctrine), but how much he actually trusts in the Lord and gives himself to the Lord in his daily life. When trials come, then you see how great a man's faith is. That's why Our Lord chastised His disciples for being of "little faith" when they panicked on the stormy sea.<br /><br />That said, orthodoxy is integral to faith. You can't truly love or worship unless you know the one you love and worship. That's why Our Lord said to the samaritan woman that God desires to be worshiped in spirit and in truth. <br /><br />The problem here is that "traditionalists" are rejecting the end of faith, which is personal relationship; and "liberals" are rejecting the means of faith, which is divine revelation. Whoever is trying to drive a wedge and divorce these two is following Satan. The result will be a "traditionalist" sect that is proud of its own orthodoxy and bitterly condemns those it deems heterodox, while having a skin deep relationship with the living God; and a "liberal" sect of people worshiping their own whims, impressions, and emotions, who get angry when anyone would disabuse them of their idols. But the result is essentially the same in both cases: people worshiping themselves rather than the true God. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858873453982708283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-4351196523216216892020-03-04T07:45:44.399-05:002020-03-04T07:45:44.399-05:00Dear Boniface. Masonry already does that and the l...Dear Boniface. Masonry already does that and the last thing Catholicism requires is to have the Great Commission dilutedMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-54618689136919272552020-03-01T14:14:29.760-05:002020-03-01T14:14:29.760-05:00Lol...why are people responding to this essay as i...Lol...why are people responding to this essay as if I am calling on Catholics to put aside our differences with Protestants and make an alliance with them? That's....not at all what the essay says.<br /><br />It says Catholic apologetics needs to shift to defending more general religious truths, some of which we do share in common with Protestants (i.e., the intelligence behind creation, existence of a moral law, authoritative religious preceptsBonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-8533784467182451332020-03-01T11:26:56.693-05:002020-03-01T11:26:56.693-05:00The fundamental Creedal and Spiritual chasm betwee...The fundamental Creedal and Spiritual chasm between Catholics and Protestants is as cataclysmic as it is wide.<br /><br />If one wishes to try and build some sort of political and secular bride over that chasm one is welcome to try but America is as it is now because America is a protestant nation that legislates in opposition to The Commandments of Christ The King.<br /><br />One may as well try and convince ABS that Protestants worship God.<br /><br />They don't. Their services are prayers and praise of God but prayers are not worship. <br /><br />Malachias 1:11 For form the rising of the sun to its going down my name is great among the Gentiles and in every place there is sacrifice and there is offered to my name a clean oblation...<br /><br />Of course, the protestants lied about this passage (as they have in so many other instances) and changed oblation to incense<br /><br />The only thing that matters for a Catholic is if their will be Sanctifying Grace in his soul upon death.<br /><br />All else is trivial and tends to detract from what a Catholic must be aboutMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-87015260575130832422020-02-17T02:33:55.851-05:002020-02-17T02:33:55.851-05:00"Gather around, little kiddies, and Uncle Bon..."Gather around, little kiddies, and Uncle Boniface will explain to you..."<br /><br />You are one Man I would trust to teach my little cousins,nephews and nieces about God over some Kooky Kool-Aid Show-off who misses the 60's. Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Versterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128928800453615354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-6880165435995110042020-02-09T10:01:33.189-05:002020-02-09T10:01:33.189-05:00There should not be an alliance with pagans and he...There should not be an alliance with pagans and heretics like the Novus Ordo suicidally wants, but a tactical truce perhaps; with necessary skirmishes here and there with them to maintain dominance, in order to focus on the bigger enemy of postmodern satanism. When this enemy is defeated, the Church shall anyway be traditional enough to also make all mistaken holders of other creeds confess and bow their heads. (If this is the scenario of the book of Revelations or any other vision or apparition, only the Lord knows).<br /><br />Meanwhile, traditionalist Catholics and conservative heretics (heck, maybe even some neoreactionary seculars/pagans) may vote and organize in conjunct action against the established technosecular order, but not pal up together otherwise. The truthful distinction and honor of the Church must still be emphasized, albeit in a second plane for current tactical reasons. <br /><br />For example, instead of the "God wishes many creeds" silly joint statement with backstabbers, the Pope by his own accord would state: "We (yes, use the royal voice again) don't agree with Lutherans in many things, but much less so do We agree with Muslims suicide-bombing them, and even less do We agree with atheists vainly mocking them all on Charlie Hebdo. Our prayers and charity, through the Virgin and the Angels and Saints to Our Lord, are with the victims of all the evils and heresies of the world; including those evils infiltrated within Our Lord's Church, but also those evil philosophies and heresies outside Her walls, for both kinds ruin so many souls. A united and very Catholic Christendom would instead help prevent all these evils against man, and against the Truth of Our Lord, which We as His Vicar uphold".Noucvnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10753383716873209707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-32848859003059501312020-02-08T23:47:47.902-05:002020-02-08T23:47:47.902-05:00I have been thinking for a few years that conserva...I have been thinking for a few years that conservative Catholics and conservative Evangelicals may very soon discover that they have more in common with each other than they do with progressive elements in their own traditions.Eric H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-23045596162615712222020-02-05T09:38:45.563-05:002020-02-05T09:38:45.563-05:00I agree with this, and it's one reason our nat...I agree with this, and it's one reason our nation and our world is now so divided. We can hardly have conversation! It has become old-fashioned to hold a view that we are basing our moral code or religious beliefs on Christ and an organized religion. How quaint, when all the pundits and activists who get so much traction in the secular world base their ideologies on what comes draining out of their own heads, they cite no sources, there are no references they will claim, because there is only the New York Times or Professor Marx and even they can't very well cite them. But you are an antiquated know-nothing Neanderthal if you still believe in those "fairy tales" and "Sky gods", as they like to say. To debate with these cement heads is impossible, so the discussion ends because it is impossible to find common ground with atheists. And our culture and our universities are turning out such lunkheads by a tens of thousands every year.Kathleen1031https://www.blogger.com/profile/10201084623185206141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-41839442508019832082020-02-01T16:47:00.045-05:002020-02-01T16:47:00.045-05:00It's untrue that the theologically liberal vs....It's untrue that the theologically liberal vs. honest traditional Christian is some new thing that has developed lately. It's been going on since at least Darwin, and arguably since the so-called "Enlightenment": really kicking up and wreaking havoc from the 1890s (hence, Pope St. Pius X's proclamations against modernism).<br /><br />C. S. Lewis (who died in 1963) noted that he felt closer to Christians of different stripes (including Catholics) who actually held to traditional Christian beliefs, than he did to the liberals and nominalists in his own Anglican denomination.<br /><br />So -- with all due respect -- this is nothing new and not a particularly original insight. Postmodern subjectivism and creeping radical secularism are fairly new, though (in the US).Dave Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771661758539438173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-30696456479374690032020-02-01T15:34:37.742-05:002020-02-01T15:34:37.742-05:00"Somewhere, Dave Armstrong is sad."
Why..."Somewhere, Dave Armstrong is sad."<br /><br />Why would I be? I agree with the article. It's why I have concentrated a great deal on atheists in the last five years.<br /><br />I would note, however, that the "doctrinal apologetics" was always mostly for the sake of those already Catholic, in order to give them confidence in holding their views: especially over against Protestant friends who asked about it. That remains the same as always, because Catholics need to have an intelligent, knowledgeable faith, no matter what is going on in the world.<br /><br />As for the main point of the article, like I said, I agree, and my apologetics has long since been adjusted accordingly.<br /><br />Dave Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771661758539438173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-34993546395995863222020-02-01T00:51:34.332-05:002020-02-01T00:51:34.332-05:00The dictatorship of relativism in full swing.The dictatorship of relativism in full swing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346248393173720254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-23147003945872135302020-01-31T18:19:46.765-05:002020-01-31T18:19:46.765-05:00This is a silly article. Boniface does what I woul...This is a silly article. Boniface does what I would expect a Roman Catholic to do. He sets a fabricated continuum for "More True" and "Less True" with Catholocism to be "More True". Not very objective. It is a good way to avoid going head-to-head with the confessions. lastholdouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16832715278382045666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-77294422339031686102020-01-31T18:19:37.503-05:002020-01-31T18:19:37.503-05:00Spot on, Boniface. Thank you for articulating the...Spot on, Boniface. Thank you for articulating the new normal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-91953845497522853142020-01-30T18:14:10.013-05:002020-01-30T18:14:10.013-05:00Somewhere, Dave Armstrong is sad.Somewhere, Dave Armstrong is sad.Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-20939606099826354432020-01-30T15:28:31.729-05:002020-01-30T15:28:31.729-05:00@Unknown:
From this very article:
Catholics shou...@Unknown:<br /><br />From this very article:<br /><br /><i>Catholics should never defend error; we should not defend traditional Calvinism just because we see it is under attack just as we are.</i><br /><br />I did not suggest making an alliance with anyone. I stated that we need to recognize that what is under attack is not so much the particulars of a Creed as much as the very concept of a credal religion at all.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-84150496384829332692020-01-30T15:23:42.268-05:002020-01-30T15:23:42.268-05:00Do you still uphold what you've written some y...Do you still uphold what you've written some years ago in "No allience with muslims"? It seems that two posts contradict each other. In the past, you claimed that the Catholic Church, being a divine institution doesn't need other allies than God and that it cannot win by relying on anyone but God. Here you seem to suggest that we do just that - make allience with heretics and schismatics, people outside the Church for the sake of defeating a greater evil.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17565861224118148658noreply@blogger.com