tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post6786154269318766393..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: The Real Problem: ModernismFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-16586038738306432162010-02-11T12:50:32.486+00:002010-02-11T12:50:32.486+00:00No Patrcius not at all, we call it modernism becau...No Patrcius not at all, we call it modernism because at its root it is still that which was first labelled modernism over a century ago.Volpius Leoniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10273209983337706262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-71816878738396604812010-02-11T00:59:38.910+00:002010-02-11T00:59:38.910+00:00Why do we still call it ''Modernism'&#...Why do we still call it ''Modernism''? Isn't that a rather obsolete term?Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-62992247985747978482010-02-10T23:16:59.941+00:002010-02-10T23:16:59.941+00:00Fr Ray,you are right. Modernism continues in the ...Fr Ray,you are right. Modernism continues in the Church under various names and guises, although some would have us believe it to be a spent force. Indeed we might now expect a "surge" from the diehard post-Vatican 11 lot, as they age.Jacobinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-90279190698971224962010-02-10T20:57:22.374+00:002010-02-10T20:57:22.374+00:00I would be careful about quoting Fr Dwight where o...I would be careful about quoting Fr Dwight where orthodoxy is concerned:- see <br />http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2004/features_may04_bonus.html and also http://www.lmschairman.org/2010/02/fr-dwight-longenecker-on-rad-trad.htmlPatricia Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10411801987695069091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-16391046270399222472010-02-10T15:14:17.674+00:002010-02-10T15:14:17.674+00:00The Church is not a democracy, it is a theocracy.The Church is not a democracy, it is a theocracy.Simon Cottonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-39657581958332170042010-02-10T13:45:25.641+00:002010-02-10T13:45:25.641+00:00Exactly, Fr Ray - the issue of failing to accept R...Exactly, Fr Ray - the issue of failing to accept Revelation for what it actually IS, is the root cause of every one of these divisions, common to all denominations. This is the issue that I bang on about ad nauseam (as my wife and friends will gladly testify!). <br />Quite simply, Christianity springs entirely from Revelation: If one questions Revelation, then one puts oneself - as the final arbiter - above God, and that’s Humanism, not Christianity.<br />I would go further and suggest that Revelation (through the Sacraments, prayer, personal Revelation etc) is the only perfect thing that we experience, because it comes straight from God, undiluted and undistorted. Our world is imperfect; matter is imperfect; we are imperfect - hence natural disasters and disease. So if Revelation is the ONLY perfect thing we encounter, then why on earth should we want to distort or reject it - that would be pure madness. But that, of course, is what we do - because we are imperfect. The Office of the Papacy, however, is a different matter, and (thank The Lord) is a direct product of Revelation, as we saw at the Ad Limina visit.Geoff Callisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851890164645398870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-64554318596366339542010-02-10T11:34:24.591+00:002010-02-10T11:34:24.591+00:00I think that you have summed the problem up very n...I think that you have summed the problem up very nicely Father.<br />Well done.<br />JARayJARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52063471980857038792010-02-10T11:28:40.513+00:002010-02-10T11:28:40.513+00:00Yes, that's it exactly.Yes, that's it exactly.laicusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-87031534503703984702010-02-10T11:16:23.580+00:002010-02-10T11:16:23.580+00:00I could not agree more with Father Dwight. The wor...I could not agree more with Father Dwight. The word "fundamentalist" has acquired a pejorative meaning but if believing in the fundamentals expressed in the Creed makes me one then I am.<br /><br />Nicolas Bellordsantoeusebiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032325567755620919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-38561198418771699962010-02-10T10:51:23.009+00:002010-02-10T10:51:23.009+00:00I am the biggest sinner i know, simply by 'vir...I am the biggest sinner i know, simply by 'virtue' of the fact that I know where I have been. The Pope also mentioned something about Marian devotion, at the weekend, particularly for Priests. I, human being that I am, with my failings, believe this will become VITAL in the coming years.<br />Padre Pio said, the Rosary is 'The weapon'.<br />I am not intellectual enough (at all haha) to articulate the relevance, but it is the truth. I know. (or I have learned nothing on earth).mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06962374096401238994noreply@blogger.com