tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post659212788265219763..comments2023-08-21T09:11:19.517+01:00Comments on Marginal Musings: Understanding Pope Benedict XVITina Beattiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04324786100032395008noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-50564692392130263952010-11-13T19:16:19.124+00:002010-11-13T19:16:19.124+00:00Dear Tina,
If you have such a beef with the Catho...Dear Tina,<br /><br />If you have such a beef with the Catholic Church, why don't you become a Protestant? You are always moaning about the Church, and you just don't seem to get it, the Church is not a democracy but a theocracy. You will never have women priests in the Church, it just wont happen. You can keep waffling on all you want in your Tablet newspaper (which incidentally is read mainly by people in their middle ages onwards, who will die off soon)but young people don't want your 60s flower power vision of the Church and when your ilk die off,the young people who replace you, will by God's grace bring the Church bag to its glory.<br /><br />People like have done so much to injure God's people and on judgment day you will be held to account for not submitting to the Church that our Lord Jesus founded.<br /><br />May God have mercy on you,<br /><br />AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-86064942122258350072010-10-17T12:00:51.704+01:002010-10-17T12:00:51.704+01:00Any Anglicans coming to Rome because of the issue ...Any Anglicans coming to Rome because of the issue of women's ordination are not wanted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-3952613266612432322010-09-24T13:43:05.112+01:002010-09-24T13:43:05.112+01:00Thank you
Maybe I'll try again.Thank you<br />Maybe I'll try again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-16732354247823853712010-09-24T13:04:53.041+01:002010-09-24T13:04:53.041+01:00@Anonymous Not just the Marian presence but the pr...@<a href="#c5004133938516016045" rel="nofollow">Anonymous</a> Not just the Marian presence but the presence of Christ in the eucharist, the community to which I belong, and the cosmos of which I am a part, all amount to so much more than the posturings of male authority figures. We are all one in Christ, and no human institution or authority can deny that. I won't let them take that away from me!Tina Beattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04324786100032395008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-50041339385160160452010-09-24T12:59:09.014+01:002010-09-24T12:59:09.014+01:00Daphne Hampson, Beverley Clack, Karen Armstrong, G...Daphne Hampson, Beverley Clack, Karen Armstrong, Grace Jantzen gave up on Christianity. Are you able to compensate for the patriachal interpretation because of your insights into the Marian tradition? Its lonely without the Mass and a spiritual home but less painful than continuing to observe the refusal of the authorities to accept that all are one in Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-51163187524263482782010-09-23T20:15:00.848+01:002010-09-23T20:15:00.848+01:00@Anonymous Must it be either/or? Can't we lear...@<a href="#c1277892538603384831" rel="nofollow">Anonymous</a> Must it be either/or? Can't we learn to see nature in the Mass and the Mass in nature - as Teilhard de Chardin did?Tina Beattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04324786100032395008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-12778925386033848312010-09-23T20:13:28.784+01:002010-09-23T20:13:28.784+01:00If the mass is like being aware of the overflowing...If the mass is like being aware of the overflowing beauty of nature, why go to mass at all? why can't we just give thanks to the creator every time we are able to be aware of such wonders?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-64016437250595316432010-09-10T16:07:47.321+01:002010-09-10T16:07:47.321+01:00@AnonymousYes, I'll write it up here afterward...@<a href="#c3657960640448657109" rel="nofollow">Anonymous</a>Yes, I'll write it up here afterwards. I'm also putting a link and information on the blog (see above).<br /><br />Tina.Tina Beattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04324786100032395008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-11475965651799044732010-09-10T09:26:33.347+01:002010-09-10T09:26:33.347+01:00Tina, Thanks for this.It is a really useful summar...Tina, Thanks for this.It is a really useful summary and analysis.I have also found Hans Kung's memoirs useful as he throws some light on the transformation that took place in Joseph Ratzinger's views in the late 60's.<br />Kung finds it odd that in Ratzinger's own memoirs he leaves out any account of his work for the 24 years when he was the " second most powerful man in the Catholic church as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, years in which dozens of theologians and countless men and women at the grass roots suffered under his regime."Blue Eyed Ennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181985609681328032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-36579606404486571092010-09-10T00:17:50.320+01:002010-09-10T00:17:50.320+01:00Just checked. I see Celibacy debate is next week. ...Just checked. I see Celibacy debate is next week. Can we have a full report please for out-of-towners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236152873981220889.post-62238813559569959332010-09-09T18:55:08.996+01:002010-09-09T18:55:08.996+01:00What happened at the celibacy debate you attended?...What happened at the celibacy debate you attended?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com