Saturday, September 5, 2015

A plague on both your houses

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     "Once again, at this point, we must speak plainly:  there is practically no liturgy worthy of the name today in the Catholic Churc...

Bouyer on "the new evangelization" (avant la lettre)

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"There is no 'salvation without the Gospel,' no 'anonymous Christianity,' no 'implicit Church.'  These are so m...

"the good priests who still believe in God and Jesus Christ, and do not have a mistress"

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"If the good priests who still believe in God and Jesus Christ, and do not have a mistress are all integralists, what good Catholics wo...

"Those Catholics who want only to look at the Omega point can preserve Christ only by volatizing him into pure mythology."

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     Louis Bouyer,  The decomposition of Catholicism,  trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 44.

Episcopal naïveté

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"Of all Christians and all the clergy it was the bishops who were accustomed or caused to be accustomed to living in the most protected...

"'The greatest danger for ecumenism is that Catholics grow into enthusiasts for everything we have recognized as harmful, and abandon everything whose importance we have rediscovered.'"

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     "one of the best contemporary ecumenists, a Protestant," to Louis Bouyer.   The decomposition of Catholicism,  trans. Charle...

These showy "candle-stub economies"

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St. Peter's, London Docks, Wikimedia Commons "I find these candle-stub economies particularly degrading.  It is the poverty of ...