I would like to bring your attention to a new 'blog, well worth bookmarking, by a friend of mine. You can read it here. Blogger is being its usual reliable self and won't let me add it to my Blogroll yet, but I shall do so post haste. Commendable is the author's insistance on commemorating local saints in the Litany!
It really is quite simple. The more Ultramontane you are, the less open to the Tradition of the Church you are. The more traditional you are, you find that you have less and less time for the presumptions of the Ultramontane popes.
Patrick, are you sure that principle always applies?
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Yes, quite sure. The disgusting photo to which you have just linked is of a woman with severe sex dysphoria and other psychological problems. Women are not to even raise their voices in church (if we are to read the words of Scripture aright) let alone dress up as men.
ReplyDeleteShe is a recently ordained "priest" of the Old Catholic Church, which is in full communion with the church where you often attend Mass.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure a priestess would be welcome in the church to which I often go for Divine Service.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought of myself as rather ultramontane, and yet I think that I have a great love for tradition. One simply needs to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were.
ReplyDeleteI remember I once said something as ridiculous as ''if the pope says Christ was born on 25th December, Christ was born on 25th December.'' This was as little as six or seven years ago.
ReplyDeleteWell, Patrick, I never was tempted to the ultramontane error as you were. Perhaps that is why I have not gone to the other extreme as you have.
ReplyDeleteI am in sympathy with what Pope Benedict has said in the past:
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/ratzinger-on-liturgical-law-4.html
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I am glad for the Pope, though---without him, I fear what our American episcopacy would have inflicted on us by now---"priestesses" among them.
Gallicanus = Dr Paul Kitchenham!
ReplyDeleteJames, I don't think I was tempted to anything. Say rather that this was the kind of Roman Catholicism imparted to me by my since lapsed mother, and which I have since rejected.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, although Catholic of the Roman Rite, - and from birth! - i have never been nor am i now ''ultramontane''. I value the Divine and Apostolic Tradition as the rule of faith; the pope is not Lord over the Tradition and over the Liturgy, he is but the Servant and highest Custodian of that Sacred Tradition. Cardinal Ratzinger - to his credit - stated this himself under the pontificate of John Paul II. As the prefect of studies of my seminary told us many times, ''Should the Pope say that Christ is not God, Christ will still and forever be God''. To a Catholic, the Lirurgy is of primary importance; dogma is secondary to it. Papal infallibility, of which much ado is made, has been used but very seldom: twice, in fact. Nowadays i often think of myself as Roman-Rite Orthodox, in Communion with the Roman Pontiff. Enfin, bone Patricii, i wish you a very happy and blessed Nameday! May Saint Patrick enlighten, guide and protect you now and until you reach the shores of our heavenly Fatherland!
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Thank you Patrick & although I'm not celebrating St Patrick's Day tomorrow, please accept my best wishes on your Name Day.
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