Saturday, May 24, 2008

Kelly. Battleground for the Amer Church

43. PASCENDI: partisans of error are to be sought...in her very bosom, even among priests.
45. "The downright plain sense of [Pius X], the desperate efforts of men who had explained away the the content of historical Christianity to present themselves as orthodox Roman Catholics were simply disingenuous" [THE TIMES 21 Aug 1914 on Pius X].
47. "Don't mention that unfortunate man [Augustine]. He has spoiled everything by introducing the supernatural" [Teilhard, quoted in Hildebrand The Trojan Horse, 227].
53. According to Kueng, one cannot trust the Old Magisterium, but should replace it with a new Magisterium of university professors.
108. Avery Dulles supported the HUMAN SEXUALITY book.
109. HUMAN SEXUALITY won the 1977 award for Pious Poppycock - "a sugary Cosmo Mag morality".
134. Margaret Sanger's demand that couples must have a permit for parenthood and only one child per couple.
136. The World Council of Churches favored sterilization [NYT 24 Feb 1961]
147 COMMONWEAL on contraception.
157. Usury - taking money on a loan without some extrinsic title.
164. Lambruschini undermining HUMANAE VITAE by denying its infallibility.
174. It has never been licit to accept the opinions of theologians against the constant teaching of the Church [Mexican bishop. NCNews 13 Aug 1968]
195. The Church's stand against craniotomy helped develope the C section.
222. Richard Daley was Fr. Greeley's hero.
229. Opinion is opinion no matter what you do with it... After Fr. Greeley and his company examine an issue and take polls and samples, they end up where they started, all previous opinions miraculously confrmed. [Msgr. Ch. O. Rice, COMMONWEAL 24 June 1977]
229. Fr. Greeley emotes whenever it is suggested that his methods are less than perfect.
230. "Greeley writes as if he knew everything...Perhaps he does... Whatever scholarship lies behind the book's judgements has been carefully [or do I mean carelessly?] hidden". [Protestant theologian Tom Driver on G's SEXUAL INTIMACY. America 8 dec 1973].
230. "G's UNSECULAR MAN is a vehicle for displaying G's list of friends and enemies". {R. Robbins. Contemporary Sociology Sep 1973].
339. Young men unsettled by the dying culture around them.
340. Belloc predicted that the paganized West would eventually be re-Christianized by missionaries from the Orient. Msgr. Walsh sees survival in little groups, as in Japan.
345. The world seldom conforms totally to the Catholic ministry's classroom and textbook description [COMMONWEAL 16 APR 1971] as any engineer or heart surgeon will testify. But the study of the strength of materials and of anatomy is essential.
403. Pareto's lions and foxes - the one authoritative, the other cunning.
435. Law without teeth is advice, not law.
436. Of the offender, Our Lord said: "If he ignores them, refer it to the Church; if he ignores even the Church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector" [Matt.18:17].
441. Fr. Arrupe accused dissenting Jesuits of seeking popularity [NCR 1 Feb 1972]
454. Most of the 2 million Irish who emigrated between 1847 and 1860 were part of the pre-famine generation of non-practicing Catholics, if indeed they were Catholic at all. [E. Larkin Amer Hist Rev June 72]
454. At the end of the Civil War, priests crossing rivers by ferries driving 20 to 40 miles by buckboard to bring Mass and instruction, laymen walking 20 miles to Church, pastors rising at dawn to visit parishioners or say Mass at a mission.
486. Are we becoming a Church of the elite?

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