Interesting thing about expertise: you have it in limited areas.
The academy is supposed to train a reflex of stepping back when someone else has more in an area. (Obviously some don’t. But it’s a thing people get made fun of for )
Weird how so many powerful people never learned that reflex
Or “The <jobtitle>’s noun”
Imagine how future scholars are gonna feel about “A <noun> of <noun> and <noun>” 😉
I think the reason that the correcting the pope stuff is so potent is because it is both ideas and actions all meshed up together. And fails *all* the tests of Catholic dissent. In the name of the Napa-American Catholicism that has been claiming the popes while rejecting them for decades.
Ask a Lonerganian and a canon lawyer to hash out the bumper sticker version. 😉
All true. So maybe we say not “he’s not a real Catholic”. But instead “he continues to fail to live up to the responsibility to live into the Catholic community which is both ideas and actions” (as many do. But in Catholicism, more public =more responsibility, as you know)
Maybe this is the place for the crossover piece on herpetology and the systematics of biblical interpretation, Joe
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Sometimes people object to a concept as ‘made up’ and I have bad news about where concepts come from.
Tell me what you think about Jesus‘s earthly omniscience and I will tell you…
Yeah. And to what extend Jesus is knowable as God and how it might “look”
This probably gets cashed out most explicitly in terms of Christology, no?
One side of that relation is “real” (or our dependence on god) and the other isn’t (God’s non dependence) to go full thomist.
St John’s Collegeville is a special place
I did my MA at a Benedictine seminary. And I think I can say *all* of them were at least liturgically inflected. Even my scripture prof was writing a “liturgical reading” of Mark while he taught us. At least 4 that were explicitly liturgy (sacraments, Eucharist, monastic liturgy, chant)
No, but I suppose I should start asking his intercession against these fools.
Maybe we need to bring back the old Irish tradition of fasting against someone.
The Benedictine vision is thoroughgoingly communal. Whereas the Jesuit is more focused on Christ and the individual
Kind of.
The Benedictine starts with profession, at which the suscipe is chanted. Christ’s reception and the community’s reception create the obligation to receive the stranger
Gave this talk last week for the Benedictine Institute here in Collegeville: "Receive Each Other: St. Benedict's Call to Neighbor Love". It starts with Benedict's call to "receive the stranger as Christ" and traces a pattern of mutual reception between community, outsiders, and God.
If we think of this in terms if public dissent, then this person a) does not have particularly good credentials, b)does not seem to be engaging with bishops about the area of disagreement, and c)is using the name of the Catholic institution to say the church is in apostasy from the gospel.
So….
You can say things. But you can’t claim that you speak with the magisterial voice while saying them
I don’t think this is right, Dan. Once you’re claiming the mantle of the bishops to determine what’s Catholic, that’s formally not free speech from a Catholic position.
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Sent my wife this image, and she yelled from the bedroom "WHEN?!"
Yes. That’s true. And I would argue that because it is unsettled there’s a duty to also confer with the separated brethren east and west as /if we decide to clarify
I’m with you. In this case, people in the pews does often include the choir pews
This is always what the Protestants are afraid we mean. We keep telling them we don’t in the dialogues… but it’s probably a lot of people’s understanding in the pews
“Supercompleted” does sound exactly like it *should* be a technical Catholic term
Kind of? Eucharist is the final sacrament of initiation- so we really don’t know what we are doing. lol
