tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496103327369055047.post3430584611029859715..comments2024-03-11T09:39:22.914+00:00Comments on Ex Umbris Et Imaginibus: Bonkers And BonkersFather Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910574198138234820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496103327369055047.post-90759328096691388822014-06-27T12:47:52.321+01:002014-06-27T12:47:52.321+01:00McAleese is a tiresome bore. Leave her in her igno...McAleese is a tiresome bore. Leave her in her ignorance, Los Leandroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05959133005477908629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496103327369055047.post-22117459673973533082014-06-20T13:04:59.882+01:002014-06-20T13:04:59.882+01:00Anonymous person, thank you for your comment. As C...Anonymous person, thank you for your comment. As Catholics we are bound to give our obedience to the Pope in many ways, most important and chief among them issues of faith and morals. We respect the Office of the Papacy even when we do not like the person who occupies it, and there have been some pretty bad men on the Chair of Peter - Benedict IX for example. Even when a good man or a Saint sits on the Chair we are not bound to agree with everything he says or does if it is done in a personal capacity. If we naively did so we would have to assent to the immoral behaviour of a number of popes, Benedict IX foremost among them. Your comment seems to suggest that we must assent even to the faults of a Pope so as not to be disobedient or be respectful. I am afraid I cannot agree with you, nor would many Saints - St Catherine of Siena among them who was quite critical when necessary. You have decided to interpret my remarks as a snipe against Pope Francis, and in that I have to tell you you are wrong, <br /><br />I love and respect the Holy Father, however I do not believe everything he has done was right or correct, and some things he has done have caused problems and cause deep upset, as for example his own snide remarks in response to the goodwill gesture of thousands of Catholics who sent him a Spiritual Bouquet of Rosaries on his election. In charity we have at times to point out even to the Pope things he has done which we believe are wrong - I direct you to a Biblical example of this in Galatians 2:11-14, where St Paul rebuked his Pope, St Peter. It is not playing into the hands of our enemies by expressing a difference or correcting a Pope, rather it is when we set a Pope up as perfect and beyond criticism that we play into the hands of our enemies because then they can say, perhaps even correctly, that we have made an idol out of a man.<br /><br />I am not sniping, I state quite clearly that I do not think it was a good idea for the Pope to live in the Domus because it created many problems for other people and it is costing the Vatican a fortune every week in extra costs at a time when money is not plentiful anywhere. <br /><br />You also miss the point I was making in the post: Mary McAleese, in my view, is entitled to give her opinion, I am pointing out how she excludes the bishops from speaking on the family because she claims they have no experience of it while she herself has often spoken on priestly celibacy though she herself has no experience of it. She cannot claim one right for herself and then deny others the same right.Father Directorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17910574198138234820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496103327369055047.post-39118264095071242862014-06-20T00:25:27.490+01:002014-06-20T00:25:27.490+01:00Father while I have nothing to disagree vwith you ...Father while I have nothing to disagree vwith you on the point you raise.i am troubled by the under current remarks you make about our holy father.i have no doubt like any leader spirtual or secular he has ìhus faults but for you and others who are linked to your we bsite to offer <br />snipes at him plays into the hands of those who hate the church.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />finally if mary mac is not allowed to comment on priestly celibacy because she has never lived it how can some one comment on the choice of the holy fathers accommodation and positive ir negative points with out having experience it by tge way in my parish in meath we appear to ga<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496103327369055047.post-78618241690367556952014-06-19T19:46:40.698+01:002014-06-19T19:46:40.698+01:00People's opinions are just that opinions. Word...People's opinions are just that opinions. Words fly by all the time. The choice is ours to get tangled or to rise above them. In the words of St. Teresa of Avila, "nothing can trouble, nothing can frighten, all things are passing God alone unchanging. For us Catholics God alone suffices.<br /><br />Loved your words on celibacy so true. A priest needs to be free to love God and to work for Him alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com