Comments for Benedict at the Bundestag: two views at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 17:18:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8289 Perhaps I'm reading something into this message which isn't there, but I find this liberal pope absolutely tyrannical and frightening sometimes. Chastising Americans over immigration? Conservative bloggers? Anyone who disagrees with his views on taxation? This preoccupation with things that have no bearing on salvation or doctrine are simply distractions. I believe his message is more and more about establishing his temporal, or governing authority over the rest of us, not spiritual authority. I believe he is a one-worlder, a Socialist at heart and I'm having none of it! I'm an AMERICAN, we believe our rights come from God, not the pope. This is a nation of laws, not men, not religions. Benedict, MYOB and work on the salvation thing. Let us worry about how to fix our country. - Alecto Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:51:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8279 How right you are , Brother Combs! But now we have some serious memebers of the USCCB who seem willing to exercise their authorithy. Let us see what they will do. Let us pray and gather our fellow Catholics to pray! I am active in the Knights of Columbus and making myslef a royal pain in the enkces of those who will not stand up for what Holy Mother Chruch inerrantly teaches, and I know many priests and bishops in the Kof C willing to stand up for the Magisterium and risk the ostracism that attends those who dare to polead that Catholcis may ot deny the dogma of the Church and are committing sinc of the most grave sort by leanig other CAtolcis to support such things as barotion of homosexual marriage. Imagine that in the very city that is named for the Queen of the Angels there are many so-called Catholics who believe that supporting abortion is permissable as long as one supports unlimited, illegal immigration in to the United States. And, yes, a former chairman of the Theology Dept at LA's LoyolaMarymount says that the Holy Sprirt guides Islam. This is the situation that ABP Gomez inherited. Of course, all of this started in the 1960's, and to speak frankly ahd earier origins in--dareI say it?-- the Marxist design to ovethrow Christian civilizatikon. - Thomas C, Cooeman, Jr. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:07:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8277 I would elaborate only this to Thomas C. Coleman's comment: nail these essays to the door of every law school classroom in the nation. Somehow I doubt most law students will have occasion to see them in a Sunday bulletin. I also refer CT readers to Robert Royal's essay on the Church's declining legal status at Catholic Education Resources. - Graham Combs Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:58:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8276 Thank you Robert Royal and Fr. Schall for essays that should appear in every parish bulletin and every Catholic college mewspaper. Many parishoners who do not regularly read serious things just might do so if enouraged in a proper way from the pulpit. And thank you Mr. Paterson-Seymour for locating some of the drift toward disaster at the doors of Kant and Luther. Many of those innocents who torture our ears with insipid memorized drivel about how the Church now admits that Luther was right have themselves never read the twisted thoughts of the poor man whose rejection of the authority of the One True Church set the world on a course set for destruction. Do I exaggerate? How far is from "every man his own priest" to "every man his own God" and then finally the insanity of the 19th Century with Marx, Nietzche et alia laying the foundations for the horrors of the 2oth Century and the Devils who are now only resting. - Thoms C. coleman, Jr. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:19:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8272 Mr. Royal -- I'm glad that you picked up on the reference to the "windowless concrete bunker." That phrase leapt up to me like a police siren. Pope Benedict used that phrase in the Bundestag, the old Reichstag building, a short walk away from the remains of another windowless concrete bunker that was destroyed in 1945. - HV Observer Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:33:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8271 Very good and thoughtful columns. I like Fr. Schall's notice of "the total state control that flows logically from these theories" (Global Warming, ecological preservation, etc.) Did you ever wonder why the people and politicians most active in preaching man-caused global warming are also most active in trying to fasten controls and limits on other people's activities? Teapot562 - TeaPot562 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:26:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8267 The Pope is performing a valuable service to mankind by teaching in the venues of power - - but then, so are the authors of this column, teaching those who access this, slightly less exhalted, venue. Thank you for your service Dr. Royal and Fr. Schall; thank you for contributing to the awakening. - Ray Hunkins Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:30:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8266 Thank you, Dr. Royal and Fr. Schall, for two excellent articles which break down and explain the Pope's address to the German Parliament. It puts his remarks in both an historical, philosophical, and current context. Thank you for your efforts on my and the other readers' behalf. - Manfred Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:05:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/benedict-at-the-bundestag-two-views.html#comment-8265 The Holy Father knows his own countrymen best and, in focusing on the German legal tradition, culminating in Kelsen, I think he was right. If the Code Napoléon is the high watermark of law as Reason (It was largely inspired by the great Catholic jurist, Portalis, steeped in the Roman law and often dubbed the philosopher of the commission that produced it), Germany, inheriting a long anti-rational tradition, from Luther to Kant and smarting under the defeat of Jena, embraced romantic nationalism and law as Will. One of the planks of the Nazi programme, one recalls, was the replacement of Roman law with German law. Of course, there are and always have been other and better tendencies in German legal thought, but the pope could be excused for focusing on its principle aberration. - Michael Paterson-Seymour Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:45:46 +0100