tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post1372285396174639764..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Cult of the ExpertUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-76849366457667300322010-07-22T09:40:49.549-05:002010-07-22T09:40:49.549-05:00You DO realize that John Paul II does NOT say what...You DO realize that John Paul II does NOT say what Mirus or May says he says?<br /><br />John Paul II agrees with Aquinas.<br />But you would never know that by reading through the recent crop of TOB experts. <br /><br />And you DO realize that Popes can make prudentially erroneous judgements, right? Like Pope Honorius, who was condemned by the liturgy of the Church as a heretic? Why did the Church herself condemn himb? Because he made a prudentially poor judgement to be silent on a subject of Catholic Faith. <br /><br />John Paul II made a prudentially poor judgement in how he delivered his TOB talks. There's nothing wrong with the talks themselves, but the target audience was all wrong. You can see that in the very paucity of references made to those audiences by other Magisterial teaching.Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-68154474391927048462010-07-22T00:52:53.636-05:002010-07-22T00:52:53.636-05:00Now, I'm considered an expert on the subject ....<i>Now, I'm considered an expert on the subject . . . <br />The cult of the expert has replaced the cult of the saints.</i><br /><br />You do realize that you are mocking yourself?<br /><br />I've never read this blog before, but I must say I am singularly unimpressed. You do understand the concept of the Magisterium, do you not? And that you are not the Magisterium, and that not even St. Thomas Aquinas was the Magisterium, unlike Pope John Paul II, whom you practically smear as a nattering boob. <br /><br /><i>Clearly, May is not a Thomist</i><br /><br />I don't know if he is or isn't. I'd be content that he is merely Catholic. It is the Catholic Church, after all, not the Thomas Aquinas Church. And the Catholic Church is guided by the successors of Peter, and not by those who have been deemed doctors of the Church.<br /><br />That you can't understand John Paul II does not mean that he was wrong or misguided. It merely means that you don't know what the hell you are talking about when you criticize him. And if you can't understand the Wednesday audiences, you might try reading his other writings where he expounded on the exact same teaching.<br /><br />Or, if you can't stomach that, bother to read what Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict has written on the matter. He gets it. Or are you also more of an expert that he is?Bendernoreply@blogger.com