tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post8747164172675123474..comments2023-11-23T11:12:37.953-06:00Comments on The Supplement - Catholic Commentary: Ratzinger - Truth and ToleranceFred Noltiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203885485191808284noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-40667560290529086852008-03-30T15:09:00.000-05:002008-03-30T15:09:00.000-05:00If you make the case for ruling 1 billion people a...<I>If you make the case for ruling 1 billion people a total mystery that no one on earth can fathom unless they are in the office</I><BR/><BR/>I didn't say that. Please read what I say before responding.<BR/><BR/>I said that <I>I</I> can't fathom the responsibility, and that <I>I</I> don't know what the office is like. I seriously doubt that you do, either. You are in no better position than I amFred Noltiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203885485191808284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-44852540610818911202008-03-30T14:55:00.000-05:002008-03-30T14:55:00.000-05:00Abortion is infallibly condemned unlike a number o...Abortion is infallibly condemned unlike a number of other issues in the moral realm. That means that unlike most dissent, a Pope could excommunicate in regard to it. Do that to several people and the numbers will decline. If you make the case for ruling 1 billion people a total mystery that no one on earth can fathom unless they are in the office....then that explains why we have a mess with bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-79477899945351529382008-03-30T14:29:00.000-05:002008-03-30T14:29:00.000-05:00Bibannon,I'll turn it into a direct question:What ...Bibannon,<BR/><BR/>I'll turn it into a direct question:<BR/><BR/>What actions may a pope take that will prevent dissent?<BR/><BR/>Your whip suggestion doesn't address the prevention of dissent.<BR/><BR/>I'd also like to know how the parable of the wheat and tares meshes with your suggestion.<BR/><BR/>Having said these things, I'll concede the following: if I were Pope, I suspect that I'd do Fred Noltiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203885485191808284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-75618229306155889152008-03-30T08:30:00.000-05:002008-03-30T08:30:00.000-05:00Reginald You better read a lot more about the Po...Reginald<BR/> You better read a lot more about the Popes who were previous to the Reformation....Pope Alexander VI e.g. had 6 illegitmate children and had after that a married mistress who was 21 while he was above 60 years old. I'm sure he could have spent alot more time on warding off the Reformation...but he was a little busy. Read the period before generalizing.<BR/><BR/> And yes...we bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-72012856377439324842008-03-30T02:36:00.000-05:002008-03-30T02:36:00.000-05:00Hi Bilbannon,I'm not sure how a Pope's actions can...Hi Bilbannon,<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how a Pope's actions can prevent dissent. Previous popes were unable to prevent the Reformation. Other popes were unable to prevent the Christological heresies, which took centuries to finally eliminate.<BR/><BR/>With regard to Pope Benedict...he has been a theologian and scholar his whole life (and <I>Truth and Tolerance</I> was written before he became Pope).Fred Noltiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203885485191808284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239290722575996816.post-80822382673630139542008-03-29T17:24:00.000-05:002008-03-29T17:24:00.000-05:00These intellectual pursuits of his though... as th...These intellectual pursuits of his though... as though he were eternally teaching college are a problem in this sense: NCReporter in a 2005 poll found that the youngest Catholics...millenials...at the rate of 89% of them said that one could dissent on abortion and still be a good CAtholic. Abortion now is infallibly condemned in section 62 of Evengelium Vitae. I see no connection between the bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.com