tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post6207736385393394743..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: WE CAN ALL BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF, ATHEISTS WILL GO TO HELL AFTER ALL, THAT'S WHAT IS BEING REPORTEDFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-47892023476521746022013-05-29T23:20:48.265-04:002013-05-29T23:20:48.265-04:00Pater Ignotus: “More wretched reporting.”
You ha...Pater Ignotus: “More wretched reporting.” <br /><br />You have a gift for understatement. The Newser article gives a link to the “corrective statement” by “the Vatican spokesman." The Salon article, which is also linked in the Newser article, names the author of the “corrective statement” as the Rev. Thomas Rosica and gives a link to the same statement. So, if we want to know what the “corrective statement” really says, here is the text of the actual statement in those links:<br /><br />http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/explanatory-note-on-the-meaning-of-salvation-in-francis-daily-homily-of-may-22<br /><br />Read and marvel at how the Newser article grossly misreports the "corrective statement," and at how indeed that statement, on a fair reading, in several respects stands for almost the diametrically opposite point from that claimed by Newser. Thus the statement contains assertions such as:<br /><br />“A non-Christian may reject a Christian’s presentation of the gospel of Christ. That however, does not necessarily mean that the person has truly rejected Christ and God. Rejection of Christianity may not mean the rejection of Christ. . . .<br /><br />“The Scriptures teach that God regards the love shown to a neighbor as love shown to Himself. Therefore the loving relationship between a person and his or her neighbor indicates a loving relationship between that person and God. This is not to say that the non-Christian is able to perform these acts of neighborly love without the help of God. Rather these acts of love are in fact evidence of God’s activity in the person.”<br /><br />Moral: Caveat Lector.<br /><br />P.S. More “Caveat Lector”: I have only “spot” source checked the sources quoted and cited in the “corrective statement.”<br /><br />PP.S. I assume that Father McDonald’s comments in his post are an example of verbal irony.<br /><br /><br />Anonymous 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-41325376472672381442013-05-29T13:42:18.839-04:002013-05-29T13:42:18.839-04:00More wretched reporting--> "Church doctrin...More wretched reporting--> "Church doctrine considers salvation off-limits to members of other religions and other branches of Christianity,..." WRONG.<br /><br /><br /> "It follows that the separated Churches and Communities as such, though we believe them to be deficient in some respects, have been by no means deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation. For the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Church." (Unitatis Redentigratio)Pater Ignotusnoreply@blogger.com