tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post2904641942648046430..comments2024-03-28T12:59:52.914-04:00Comments on southern orders: MY TAKE ON 2017Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-78294370002087041952018-01-01T02:34:54.473-05:002018-01-01T02:34:54.473-05:00The Church under Pope Francis is circling the dra...The Church under Pope Francis is circling the drain in the same manner the mainstream Protestant churches have already done years ago. Our only hope is that God will have pity on his Church and preserve the deposit of faith in pockets whence it can spring forth again if conditions improve.CharlesGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-19948269078294047402018-01-01T02:11:05.894-05:002018-01-01T02:11:05.894-05:00Bernard F keep drinking the koolaidBernard F keep drinking the koolaidTJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53517083943977842042017-12-31T22:04:15.485-05:002017-12-31T22:04:15.485-05:00Only a person who has never met a traditionalist w...Only a person who has never met a traditionalist would accuse Fr McDonald of such. Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510317669833026685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82637774520450537842017-12-31T19:17:06.850-05:002017-12-31T19:17:06.850-05:00"Church leaders from around the world hailed ..."Church leaders from around the world hailed the tone of mercy in Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), but cautioned against a hurried reading of the document. “What is new about this exhortation is its tone,” Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, told Catholic News Service after the document’s release on April 8. He said it calls on all ministers “to be warm and caring in the way they deal with people in difficult circumstances.” - Catholic Herald<br /><br />"ROME- Cardinal Gerhard Müller, allegedly replaced by the pontiff as the Vatican’s doctrinal chief for his rejection of Amoris Laetitia, has penned an essay defending it.<br />Among other things, Müller acknowledges that there can be “mitigating factors in guilt,” referring to the case of access to the sacraments to divorced and civilly remarried people. Hence, it’s possible that, “through a pastoral discernment in an internal forum,” Catholics in this situation might be able to receive communion." - Crux<br /><br />"But in his Aug. 2 speech to the Knights of Columbus, Cardinal Ouellet emphasized that Pope Francis had not touched Catholic teaching regarding divorce and the indissolubility of marriage. "What is proposed is a new pastoral approach," said the cardinal, in charge of vetting and appointing bishops around the world. "More patient and respectful, more dialogical." - Catholic News Service<br /><br />"Pope Francis' new document on love in the family is welcome particularly for its steadfast adherence to Church teaching on homosexual acts and relationships, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna said." - EWTN News<br /><br />Your accusations against the Holy Father are nothing short of scandalous. You harm the Church by fanning the flames of ideological, at times, fanatical, traditionalism.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-65869240242224255542017-12-31T18:06:23.178-05:002017-12-31T18:06:23.178-05:00Father MacDonald, one of my New Year's Resolut...Father MacDonald, one of my New Year's Resolutions is going to be to give up this blog. It has become saturated with scandal and negativity -- negativity which I have contributed to and for which I've gone to Confession on more than one occasion. I have enough negativity in my life, for reasons I'll not go into, and I don't need more scandals which I'm powerless to change to worry about. I started reading this blog because of some articles defending Francis' orthodoxy, but those days seem long ago.<br /><br />My decision was based in part on this article, the wisdom of which only confirms what I have been thinking about over the past few weeks.<br />https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/12/31/a-fresh-start-for-2018/<br /><br />I wish you and your readers the best of 2018s and I thank God for your positive response to His call to the priesthood. But this blog is not helpful in a world where hatred is the norm.GenXBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298459502431357489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-83711136642121224692017-12-31T14:51:51.730-05:002017-12-31T14:51:51.730-05:00Fr McDonald:
I agree with you. That is how the Mo...Fr McDonald:<br />I agree with you. That is how the Modernists work, managing, usually surreptitiously, to open the door a tiny bit which eventually throws it wide open. That footnote seems like such a "seed" of revolutionary new doctrine that tries to conform the Church to the modern (god-less) culture and you are right as a pastor to sound the alarm.<br />Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-4602733064485610832017-12-31T10:47:17.855-05:002017-12-31T10:47:17.855-05:00The Church is off the rails. Who they choose as th...The Church is off the rails. Who they choose as the next Pope will be a good indication of where we are headed. I am not optimistic.Genenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-88965358256977838732017-12-31T10:40:57.946-05:002017-12-31T10:40:57.946-05:00I like the photo of your church's altar using ...I like the photo of your church's altar using the Benedictine altar arrangement, and think that arrangement could bring back much Catholic identity. It is adaptable for either ad orientem or versus populum. It also works well in churches that only have the Vatican II style altars. Hopefully its use will increase in 2018. I wonder why in your photograph two crucifix's are in use? Small changes can make an enormous difference Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-87390558036080635212017-12-31T09:59:15.964-05:002017-12-31T09:59:15.964-05:00You should reread my article as it is the interpre...You should reread my article as it is the interpretation of the footnote in Amoris Laetitia that is causing situation ethics to abound in many places. In fact this has been going on in local parishes in the USA since the 1970's where priests either look the other way or tell parishioners in illicit unions to use their own judgement if they are to receive or not receive Holy Communion. Many priests in fact will bless this unions in a marital ceremony. I have a photo of a priest doing so for close friends of my parent in the 1970's neither of whom had their previous marriages annulled. But back then, it was clear that there wasn't a sanctioning of this by the papal Magisterium. That seems to be eroding now. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-50345174572739912812017-12-31T08:41:15.718-05:002017-12-31T08:41:15.718-05:00"Traditional Catholic sexual morality based u..."Traditional Catholic sexual morality based upon Scripture and Tradition is being replaced by situational ethics incrementally by Pope Francis."<br /><br />This is a very troubling accusation for a priest to make so blithely. Many who are far more well-informed than you have defended the Holy Father's Amoris laetitia as being entirely in conformity with Tradition and Scripture.<br /><br />To make such an accusation publicly is highly ill-conceived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com