Comments for Benedict Departs, but the Presence Endures at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 05:02:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15970 Thank you for putting out good writings about catholicism. We love pope benedict. One of friends eho is a priest said . People went to rome to see pope john paul 2 while peopl went to rome to hear pope benedict speak. Thanks to all writers like you there is some good out in the internet world. - Maristel harris Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:37:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15969 I feel, when I am reading Pope Benedict, that whatever was valid from the exegetical critics of the twentieth century has been sifted and weighed, and then combined again with the teachings of the Church over the last two millennia. Every page has gold. But it isn't the scholar that I hear the clearest. It's the lover of Jesus, and Christendom, and everything good in human nature; filtered just a little through the sober German mind (as in his teacher Guardini). The next Pope had better be humble ... - Tony Esolen Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:07:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15968 Hadley, Your reminder of his long influence helps me understand my feelings better. He has been an anchor for us for so many years that it's much more than his time as pope. It also reminds me that I have always trusted his judgment and can do so now. Perhaps the harvest is so ripe that God has another man in mind to go out and collect it. After all, what else is left to compete with Catholicism for all the reasons you articulate. - Louise Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:46:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15966 A wonderful tribute to our Holy Father, Professor Arkes. Thank you. The other day I began to read again a book that I had read years ago: "This Tremendous Lover" by M. Eugene Boylan. The first line of the "Introduction" that I began this morning was this: "It is beyond the power of any human mind to know or measure the depths of sorrow that filled the Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ. One thing, however, we do know: that His sorrows were begotten of love, . . ." I think that the same can be said of Pope Benedict. - Maggie-Louise Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:48:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15965 Hadley Arkes wrote, "What makes it all the more jolting is that he has been such a vivid presence for so long – since well before he ascended to the papacy in 2005." It suddenly strikes me that this is actually a source of great comfort for the distress of all of us who lament his retirement, since if he had such a vivid presence well before his ascendancy to the papacy, we can probably expect an equally vivid presence well after his retirement from the papacy. - Stanley Anderson Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:36:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15964 I love Pope Benedict. Thank you for honoring him Prof. Arkes...and all of you at The Catholic Thing, especially Fr. Schall...who pointed me, with so many others, toward Joseph Ratzinger. - Chris in Maryland Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:43:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15963 Thank you Professor Arkes for this most insightful piece on our Holy Father. Let us pray that his work will continue to influence the affairs of the Church and most certainly, the coming gathering in Rome. - Ray Hunkins Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:08:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15962 A true scholar's pope. I can only trust that God has some reasons I can't understand for this. The way he angered violent Islamists and militant leftists was the most convincing possible proof for me of what a wonderful and blessed pope we had. - Jacob Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:28:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/benedict-departs-but-the-presence-endures.html#comment-15961 The “grain of truth” in the Protestantism’s “rejection of natural law and moral reasoning,” has been a theme of the nouvelle théologie, ever since Laberthonnière accused the Neo-Thomists of being influenced by “a false theological notion of some state of pure nature and therefore imagined the state could be self-sufficient in the sense that it could be properly independent of any specifically Christian sense of justice.”. Thus, Maurice Blondel, insisted that we must never forget “that one cannot think or act anywhere as if we do not all have a supernatural destiny. Because, since it concerns the human being such as he is, in concreto, in his living and total reality, not in a simple state of hypothetical nature, nothing is truly complete (boucle), even in the sheerly natural order” Jacques Maritain, too, declared that “the knowledge of human actions and of the good conduct of the human State in particular can exist as an integral science, as a complete body of doctrine, only if related to the ultimate end of the human being . . . the rule of conduct governing individual and social life cannot therefore leave the supernatural order out of account” - Michael Paterson-Seymour Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:58:25 +0100