Catholic Culture’s Jeff Mirus on “Faulty Traditionalist Condemnation(s)” of Recent Vatican Apppointments
1. Joseph Augustine Di Noia: A Faulty Traditionalist Condemnation
(Monday July 9, 2012) Readers have called my attention to the Traditionalist denunciations of Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, since he has been appointed Vice President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, and of Archbishop Gerhard Müller, now that he has been named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of…
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2. Gerard Ludwig Müller: Another Faulty Traditionialist Condemnation
(Monday July 9, 2012) Archbishop Gerhard Müller—the brand new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—has also come under Traditionalist attack. A case in point is the July 9th Remnant Online blog entry, New Head of CDF Dissents from Certain Doctrines of Faith?, by “a concerned…
Jeffy boy doesn’t have a degree in theology, does he?
Heck no. His PhD is in Intellectual History. Only no intellectual would think he could get any type of real job with that doctorate.
I just read the second reference. His response is even less adequate than Msgr. Bux’s.
I believe that the Rorate post ( rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/03/in-charge-of-henhouse.html ) would be even better reading for Dr. Mirus.
Truly the worst enemies of Tradition are ‘conservatives’.
Oh dear! That’s a very unconvincing defence of Archbishop Müller. I was really hoping for something much more substantial. As Catholics we are called, not only to announce and defend the truth, but also, to do so with clarity. We are not permitted to say things that can be easily understood by fellow Catholics as heretical. If we are going to say something about a topic so sacred as the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we must explain ourselves simply and without ambiguity. The use of novel terminology, words and phrases that can give different meanings when viewed from different vantage points, is unacceptable.
“But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” (St. Mat 5:37)
Please God these quotations are mistranslations (the SSPX German district could probably verify that one!)… Or maybe they were out of context, please God! Perhaps they came under a heading such as: “A syllabus of errors: The following statements cannot be believed by Catholics in good standing…”
All this turgid blowhard ever does provide a perpetual avalanche of these asinine opinions of his.
He probably thinks everyone is sitting around waiting to hear him weigh-in on everything.
I hope Mirus has never been a lawyer…with defences of that quality there would have been a whole string of innocents rotting in gaol.
He thinks he’s the Defender of the Faith; in actuality he’s the Enabler of Dysfunction.
I loved his poignant exegesis of St. Paul. Brilliant!
These neo-Catholics today haven’t got a clue what the faith is. And so all is good in the name of ‘authority and the pope’ . When the blind lead the blind, well, I guess, . . .
The following is from an email Mirus the Pompous sent to subscribers on 7-10-12:
Dear Mr. XXXXXX,
Heresy is a grave evil; deliberate refusal to accept the correction of the Church is a grave sin. In an astonishing case of the pot calling the kettle black, however, Traditionalists have rushed to denounce two recent critical appointees of Pope Benedict as heretics, complete with cherry-picked quotes to prove what they cannot prove.
Face it, if it comes from the pope or anyone he touches, Jeff will defend it. Heck, he’d even defend this:
The role of the priesthood is to consecrate the world so that it may become a living host, a liturgy: so that the liturgy may not be something alongside the reality of the world, but that the world itself shall become a living host, a liturgy. This is also the great vision of Teilhard de Chardin: in the end we shall achieve a true cosmic liturgy, where the cosmos becomes a living host. Pope Benedict, July 24, 2009.
Or even this:
The difficulty begins with the very first page of the Bible. The concept presented there of how the world came to be, is in direct contradiction of all that we know today about the origins of the universe. Cdl. Ratzinger, Faith and the Future (which dovetails with Teilhard, above).
How about it, Jeff?
Nothing to see here. Move along….
NEVER SEND A BOY…
Being an etude on conciliar apologetics, insufferably rendered
There once was some dude from some “schola”
Who couldn’t tell **** from Shinola
But carping atacks?
Shafting Trads in their backs?
Why, the man ’twas the Virus – Ebola!
Then, along came a bishop from Britain
Who found “doc” to be smitten:
” ‘Tis Assisian LUV,
And incurable, Guv!
The man oughtn’t preach to a kitten!”
So, “doc” – miffed – hissed through his PC,
His ardor increasingly greasy,
‘Til one day, on a forum
Some Catholics tore him
A new one, which turned him right queasy.
The tale may go on for some time, though,
As modernists’ wits tend to be slow.
Poor things, their scant diction
Is in fierce opposition
To what Churchmen of yore knew to be so.