tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post5180373899386485634..comments2024-03-28T18:02:12.286-04:00Comments on southern orders: SO MUCH FOR POPE FRANCIS' FAKE NEWS MONIKER, "WHO AM I TO JUDGE?"Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-43105176190049159752017-05-08T22:09:44.905-04:002017-05-08T22:09:44.905-04:00Dialog, i have over cooked tilapia until it was pr...Dialog, i have over cooked tilapia until it was preserved for all time. <br /><br />I guess the rigid people actually do what the hypocrites talk about but just don't make a fuss over it. I am always amazed when people become offended at me for abstaining or fasting when I don't even bring it up. I really believe they didn't just forget but know exactly what they are doing and, like school boys playing hooky or smoking behind the gym, they are angry at anyone who does not go along and become distrustful of them. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63327415438262210852017-05-08T17:16:58.109-04:002017-05-08T17:16:58.109-04:00"Rigid" is a stupid term to apply to the..."Rigid" is a stupid term to apply to the truths of Scripture and the doctrines of the Church. There are absolutes in theology and doctrine. Too bad if you cannot handle that. But, I love the liberal phallic obsession with words like rigid, stiff, flexible, etc. I think they have a hang up on their hang downs...probably envy.Genenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-45794357867304442512017-05-08T16:50:14.560-04:002017-05-08T16:50:14.560-04:00rcg,
I find fish to be flexible, whatever day of ...rcg,<br /><br />I find fish to be flexible, whatever day of the week. Beef jerky is rigid. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-80373047820986907422017-05-08T15:12:00.188-04:002017-05-08T15:12:00.188-04:00Let's talk rigidity: who on this blog observe ...Let's talk rigidity: who on this blog observe meatless Fridays? If you slip up or find youself in a situation where you can't (e.g. trapped inside a cow and forced to chew your way out). What, in a situation like the cow disaster, do you do about it? Do you consider the observance of meatless Friday to be rigid?rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-38524397563709139272017-05-07T17:11:33.352-04:002017-05-07T17:11:33.352-04:00Anonymous,
Are you participating in a knock knock...Anonymous,<br /><br />Are you participating in a knock knock joke? Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-77134665449503850022017-05-07T10:11:33.191-04:002017-05-07T10:11:33.191-04:00Francis who? Francis who? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-13705780025970326182017-05-07T08:58:58.875-04:002017-05-07T08:58:58.875-04:00Traditional Christians aren't rigid. The Sacr...Traditional Christians aren't rigid. The Sacred Tradition promotes progress in knowledge and virtue, and this progress takes a lifetime. So, to be a traditional Christian is to be a spiritual progressive. The new religion established in 20th century may call itself "christian" or even "catholic", but it lacks the flexibility needed to remain faithful to the past, hopeful for the future, and charitable in the present, while simultaneously promoting the virtuous growth of its members. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-71265759016687044412017-05-07T06:56:08.340-04:002017-05-07T06:56:08.340-04:00Fr. Fox, I like your analogy although I must have ...Fr. Fox, I like your analogy although I must have been thinking of it subconsciously. A marshmallow isn't rigid until it is stale and stale is the 1970's!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-37084462239358665522017-05-07T06:17:45.767-04:002017-05-07T06:17:45.767-04:00Rigid is a loaded, even negatively loaded term. An...Rigid is a loaded, even negatively loaded term. Anyone using it, especially in an opening sentence arguing a point, is advocating an ideological position with little regard for facts. Habitual law-breakers use such terms to avoid justified retribution for crimes committed.<br /><br />Social Justice Warriors, who usually claim to be so humble and tolarant, are the ultimate rigid characters anywhere. If you hear "rigid" used expect to hear a lame justification from a liberal who just been found to have broken a law and wants to avoid the consequences of his self-indulgent actions.<br /><br />Anon-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15072952959556239922017-05-06T15:14:42.203-04:002017-05-06T15:14:42.203-04:00Everyone remembers those famous words of Christ: &...Everyone remembers those famous words of Christ: "Be ye flexible even as your Heavenly Father is flexible."Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510317669833026685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-9380303854743503662017-05-06T15:10:22.933-04:002017-05-06T15:10:22.933-04:00In my experience, rigid progressives abound and ar...In my experience, rigid progressives abound and are a big barrier to moving ahead and putting the Church's generational problems in the rear view window. While rigid traditionalists are pretty hard to find in real life, too few to be a real problem to anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82321324886906524632017-05-06T12:24:50.720-04:002017-05-06T12:24:50.720-04:00Rigid progressives and rigid traditionalists are e...Rigid progressives and rigid traditionalists are equally stale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-50752929082840619712017-05-06T11:17:42.964-04:002017-05-06T11:17:42.964-04:00I happen to think it affects progressives as much ...<i>I happen to think it affects progressives as much as conservatives or should I say the orthodox/fundamentalists and the heterodox/marshmallows.</i><br /><br />This comment got me thinking: when is a marshmallow "rigid"?<br /><br />When it is <i>stale</i>.<br />Fr Martin Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-55802358426482536532017-05-06T11:09:42.675-04:002017-05-06T11:09:42.675-04:00There is nothing and no one as unyielding as a rig...There is nothing and no one as unyielding as a rigid liberal.Robert Kumpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567786012498143419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-13070294109519322752017-05-05T18:13:23.297-04:002017-05-05T18:13:23.297-04:00I have met rigid Christians, but very few of them....I have met rigid Christians, but very few of them. These few usually seem to suffer from some underlying emotional problem, one which requires flexibility on our part. That said, rigid Christians are so few in number that it's hard for me to understand why the pope is so obsessed with them. I wish he would concern himself more with faithful Catholic families, who all need his pastoral solicitude. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-31702264284674737862017-05-05T13:26:45.257-04:002017-05-05T13:26:45.257-04:00Prayers against rigidity apply to so many within t...Prayers against rigidity apply to so many within the church at all levels for if they didn't, things wouldn't be as they are today. We should pray for all who are rigid - leaning toward one extreme or the other that we who are members of this body can be freed of tiresome and distracting debates such as this, be protected and nourished by our inheritance (the sacraments and tradition) and focus on our salvation. Those that continue one way or the other to distract the faithful will ultimately have to take responsibility before the judgement seat for so doing. <br /><br />To your introductory question Father, and in my humble opinion, I do not believe that Cardinal Burke is rigid and prone to hypocrisy. He is stylistically traditional and as best as I can tell from my vantage point, lives a life of meekness and compassion while preaching the gospel. A preference for tradition does not result in rigidity. Embracing fundamentalism does result in rigidity. At the same time a preference for 'contemporary' worship does not result in rigidity however, preventing traditional worship, administration of sacraments and compromising tradition and doctrine does result in rigidity. To me, sinfulness and sinful lifestyle choices regardless of their placement on the rigidity spectrum are self explanatory relative to this discussion. <br /> ByzRushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11543580976814745615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-89861841607689243112017-05-05T12:49:15.503-04:002017-05-05T12:49:15.503-04:00I have said this before, Progressives implemented ...I have said this before, Progressives implemented the spirit of V II IN THE MOST PRE-Vatican II Dogmatic, authoritarian way!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-17661198285968017492017-05-05T10:28:16.929-04:002017-05-05T10:28:16.929-04:00In their eyes it is worse to be a hypocrit than to...In their eyes it is worse to be a hypocrit than to doubt Christ. So they refuse to accept certain things so they can't fail in them. They denied the EF so they believe admitting that they were wrong would be admitting to hypocrisy. They dred their own hell more than God's. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-23420132433157222172017-05-05T09:28:28.105-04:002017-05-05T09:28:28.105-04:00I think there is a more hypocritical inflexibility...I think there is a more hypocritical inflexibility on the part of the heterodox. They have dogmatized their flexibility, and they require strict adherence to their flexibility, or what they perceive to be their flexibility. Francis is a good example of this -- he advocates for a reduction of what-he-perceives-to-be rigid systems, but he advocates that position rigidly in that he insults and condemns those who disagree with his non-rigidity. As the saying goes, "There is no absolute except that there are no absolutes." <br /><br />The rigidity of the Church's teaching and the attempt by people to follow that teaching does not mean that those people lack meekness. Humbly attempting to submit to established rules is precisely the sort of meekness that the Church has always demanded of people. <br /><br />Conversely, for the authorities to attempt to subvert the established order of the Church is prideful hubris, the opposite of meekness. The difficulty in following established rules is not a reason to undo those rules. It is just an incentive to better assistance by the Church to help people to know and follow. <br /><br />This can be summed up in the advice given to confessors: "Be a lion in the pulpit, but a lamb in the confessional." That is, preach the rigidity, but exercise flexibility when presented with particular circumstances. The pope and those of his ilk, instead of following this sage and saintly advice, are simply attempting to undo all sense of law. That does nothing other than bring about the appearance that the law isn't being violated. But since the law is objective and not subject to their attempted changes, the effect is only apparent and not actual.<br /><br />Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510317669833026685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-2155613091488212122017-05-05T08:21:13.668-04:002017-05-05T08:21:13.668-04:00Rigidity is not exclusive to conservatives, religi...Rigidity is not exclusive to conservatives, religious or not. There is a secular rigidity too!<br />There is news this morning that a family with two small children were evicted from a Delta Flight because the dad was unwilling to give up a seat he had paid for his 18 year old son, who had taken another flight and the dad wanted to use that paid for seat for one of his toddlers. However, the law rigidly enforced by Delta's personnel said he couldn't do that and that the seat had to be used by the person whose name was on the ticket. So I would say rigidity to civil law can be problematic in some cases too.<br /><br />But let's get back the the flexible Pope and other flexible cardinals, bishops and priests--when oh when will they celebrate the EF Mass publicly in the day of light and not hide their celebrating of it??? Can't they be flexible enough to celebrate this nearly 1,800 year form of the Mass? Are they to rigidly opposed to it to do so?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com