tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post5550483675011575794..comments2024-03-28T11:36:20.629-04:00Comments on southern orders: DOES THE MACON TELEGRAPH'S EDITORIAL POLICY SUBSCRIBE TO ANTI-CATHOLIC IDEOLOGIES AS CHARACTERIZED BY CHICK PUBLICATIONS BUT EXPRESSED IN POLITICALLY CORRECT TERMS BY DR. BILL CUMMINGS, AN ANTI-CATHOLIC EX-CATHOLIC?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-9250712611006440282015-08-26T07:10:54.837-04:002015-08-26T07:10:54.837-04:00...and trolls....and trolls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-16879749833542416422015-08-26T05:18:47.622-04:002015-08-26T05:18:47.622-04:00Nuh uh! There's also schismatics running aroun...Nuh uh! There's also schismatics running around spreading their schism and other unfavorable ideas.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554830859411216515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53119815609746984372015-08-25T20:44:45.641-04:002015-08-25T20:44:45.641-04:00Two types of people comment here: those who admoni...Two types of people comment here: those who admonish the sinners and those who admonish the admonishers.Lefebvriannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-77899108554044003982015-08-25T20:34:52.000-04:002015-08-25T20:34:52.000-04:00There's nothing most folks here love more than...There's nothing most folks here love more than "Admonish the sinner".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-7146863653452038212015-08-25T19:19:48.872-04:002015-08-25T19:19:48.872-04:00No, we are Legion. Strike one and another will ta...No, we are Legion. Strike one and another will take its place. <br /><br />The way to stop being corrected for your bad grammar is to say it or write it correctly in the first place. It's really not hard to learn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-76283451277958783342015-08-25T19:13:58.542-04:002015-08-25T19:13:58.542-04:00Yes, shoot the grammar Nazi.Yes, shoot the grammar Nazi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-17512808038351758142015-08-25T18:19:53.559-04:002015-08-25T18:19:53.559-04:00Mr. Cummings, aside from his habit of necroposting...Mr. Cummings, aside from his habit of necroposting on this blog, clearly does not understand the causes of the Reformation. Or its effects. He displays the same 'Luther as Saviour' attitude as evangelicals.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554830859411216515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-79869134199328636302015-08-25T17:21:36.866-04:002015-08-25T17:21:36.866-04:00There's an easy way to stop being corrected fo...There's an easy way to stop being corrected for your bad grammar.... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63587659273065101912015-08-25T13:08:23.721-04:002015-08-25T13:08:23.721-04:00So now your ministry is to correct grammar for peo...So now your ministry is to correct grammar for people? I had a brother-in-law who did that. REALLY annoying. gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-67527924551064347712015-08-25T12:22:47.402-04:002015-08-25T12:22:47.402-04:00gob - Nope, did that ages ago - and learned how to...gob - Nope, did that ages ago - and learned how to write way back then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-38999911549469805692015-08-25T12:16:56.921-04:002015-08-25T12:16:56.921-04:00The Macon Tel-A-Lie has never been anything but a ...The Macon Tel-A-Lie has never been anything but a poorly written and edited fish wrapper or bird cage liner. Just ignore it. Nobody reads it anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-85348145421546603652015-08-25T11:42:54.511-04:002015-08-25T11:42:54.511-04:00If Martin Luther was so correct, then most Protest...If Martin Luther was so correct, then most Protestants, including this Mr. Cummings, would be strict Lutherans adhering closely to all of Luther's supposedly excellent ideas. The fact that no one in the world is a strict Lutheran who takes seriously the totality of Luther's ideas is evidence that Luther was not correct. Lefebvriannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-64492297322397272042015-08-25T11:29:57.438-04:002015-08-25T11:29:57.438-04:00editor.....Oh my........are you taking "Engli...editor.....Oh my........are you taking "English 101" in school now?gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-72581770153080225702015-08-25T11:19:47.131-04:002015-08-25T11:19:47.131-04:00At the beginning of this post, you seemed to try t...At the beginning of this post, you seemed to try to stir Dr. Cummings and Jack Chick together...to make them the same. They don't seem the same....<br /><br />Your letter didn't challenge any of the facts that Dr. Cummings recited. You mostly reverted to the default position argument that all of the ills of churches today are the fault of VII and the liberals and us old guys.<br /><br />I think you should think twice before you consider a face to face debate. gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-51399410929502794802015-08-25T11:13:18.510-04:002015-08-25T11:13:18.510-04:00Robert - People like Fr. McDonald who are convince...Robert - People like Fr. McDonald who are convinced of the accuracy of their opinions won't be swayed by the facts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-25062352413625920622015-08-25T10:24:29.685-04:002015-08-25T10:24:29.685-04:00I really don't wish to deflate your balloon Fa...I really don't wish to deflate your balloon Father, but the decline readership for McClatchy's publications very likely has little to do with their editorial policies. Print media is dwindling in readership and subscriptions EVERYWHERE, regardless of ideology. The fact is, the internet has changed everything and each subsequent generation is less literate and has shorter attention spans. We are living in a post-literate society. If anything, pieces like the one you've posted from Cummings are likely selected just to arouse controversy, even if it's negative publicity. It's a pretty sad state of affairs.Robert Kumpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567786012498143419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-43451033442495078702015-08-25T10:09:49.959-04:002015-08-25T10:09:49.959-04:00Oh my....
"Dr. Bill Cummings a former prie...Oh my.... <br /><br />"Dr. Bill Cummings a former priest and non-practicing Catholic is the poster child..." <br /><br />"...a former priest and non-practicing Catholic..." is a parenthetical phrase. Parenthetical phrases are set off by commas. <br /><br />It should read, "Dr. Bill Cummings, a former priest and non-practicing Catholic, is the poster child..."<br /><br />"...those who viewed Vatican II as a rupture in that tradition and produced a completely different church..." should read, "...those who viewed Vatican II as a rupture in that tradition WHICH produced a completely different church..."<br /><br />This fragment contains verb/subject disagreement: "While growth in the population of the Church is a laudable goal, fidelity to the truths of the Church are more laudable..." It should read, "While growth in the population of the Church is a laudable goal, fidelity to the truths of the Church IS more laudable..." (Fidelity...is more laudable.)<br /><br />"Mustard seeds, the smallest of shrubs grow into..." No. Scripture says the mustard seed is the smallest of all SEEDS, not shrubs. AND this fragment should read, "Mustard seeds, the smallest of all shrubs (sic), grows into..."<br /><br />-editor<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-6446322274906343872015-08-25T10:01:46.122-04:002015-08-25T10:01:46.122-04:00So challenge the good doctor to an open public deb...So challenge the good doctor to an open public debate in the town square and be done with it. <br /><br />The topic can be "Was Martin Luther's 95 theses correct or not?" Then mop the floor with him as you go down the line on those theses and show how the German Augustinian was a) woefully undereducated and b) simply wrong about so much even if the Church was in need of reform. <br /><br />And you might ask why we can trust the Bible itself seeing how the canon of scripture was settled by Catholic bishops meeting in a council in the late 300s... if we can't trust the Church then neither can we trust the Bible or the authenticity of the Gospel message itself.<br /><br />This would seem precisely what is happening in the USA: a watered down toothless Catholicism that tries to be 'nice' and unthreatening, a post-modern Protestantism that first rejected the historical Church ends up rejecting the Bible too in favor of whatever hedonistic cultural fad comes down the pike. <br /><br />The only reform possible is to regain a trust for scripture and a renewed faith in all Christ's promises which includes the Church as pillar of truth and source of authority to 'bind and lose'. <br /><br />Our Lord sent out his disciples to heal and exorcise and preach. He didn't order them to found a printing press, write up a million copies of the Gospel and then let each reader infallibly interpret things for themselves! But we, Catholics, heirs of the great patrimony of the Gospel and all the saints, tend to be under-educated in both scripture and the insights of the saints! Yet a half-way educated Catholic can easily mop the floor with pretty much any Protestant preacher man.<br /><br />But we're called not just to 'win' arguments but to heal the person, liberate the person from principalities and powers and so lead them to encounter the living Jesus. <br /><br />I suspect that's why martyrdom always accompanies reform - we must be purified in our intentions and purified of our own vices until the only thing left is love for Jesus and love for souls, so letting go of our fear of not being liked or fear of persecution, we press ahead boldly like men to make disciples of all these lost souls.<br /><br />When someone does you the honor of engaging you in an argument, the reaction ought to be twofold - one, rise to the argument and defeat it and two, and most importantly, sink to our knees in prayer that the arguer may come to see the truth and the One who alone can save our souls.Jusadbellumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-22946150114677952552015-08-25T09:40:07.193-04:002015-08-25T09:40:07.193-04:00This fellows article is ridiculous. He asks why t...This fellows article is ridiculous. He asks why there is a decline in Church attendance. He responds that the decline would cease if there were more priests questioning things like artificial contraception. <br /><br />In reality, the decline in Church attendance corresponds with the advent of priests questioning things like artificial contraception.<br /><br />If a Church does not stand on moral principles, it is much more likely that one will wake up on Sunday morning, hit the snooze button, and say, "The hell with it." That individual reaction is a microcosm of what a church that does not stand on moral principles has already done.<br /><br />In other words, if the Church doesn't even take its teachings seriously, why would the people? First and foremost, people will simply stop going. That is what happens when, for example, the Church takes its holiest and most solemn ceremonies and declares that they need to be changed. When the Church does this, the Church loses credibility. Or, as another example, when the Church tells people for 2,000 years that they may not get divorced and remarried and still receive Communion. People are smart enough to realize that, if that sort of thing can simply change, then the Church isn't what She said She was, and it isn't worth getting up on Sunday for.Lefebvriannoreply@blogger.com