Go here to read the story. Viewing the musings of this Pope on the Angelic Doctor is akin to hearing the thoughts of Homer Simpson on Homer.
PopeWatch: Francis on Thomas
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It’s worse than that Don:
“Sometimes, when reflecting on a person who was a creator of schools, philosophical or theological, there is a risk of exploiting the master to express one’s own opinion” – ya think?
“He detailed the three steps needed to “explain the thought of a master”:” – I do not think the Saint would have referred to himself as the master.
“One must “never use the master for things that one thinks oneself, but to place the things that one thinks in the light of the master, so that it may be the light of the master that interprets this.” – smoke and mirrors to confuse & look profound.
“must be a “living Thomism,” which seeks to “address today’s world in dialogue.” – there it is: no tradition, no knowledge, nothing but perpetual deconstruction.
“there is the diastolic movement: to address today’s world in dialogue, so as to assimilate what is true and right in the culture of the time.” – there it is the Church learning from the World.
It sounds like the Pope is saying “think before you speak.”
That’s advice he should take.
It sounds like the Pope is saying “think before you speak.”
You mean the Airline Magisterium was thought out beforehand?
He’s trying to drag Thomas down to his level. That’s his entire program: dragging people down into the mire he splashes about in.
The idea that he himself needs to change is anathema.
Even so, Rome’s problems won’t go away with a better man as pontiff.
“Even so, Rome’s problems won’t go away with a better man as pontiff.”
Quite true, in that we have over a century’s worth of modernism’s gradual infiltration to address. Concretely, as the modernists like to say, one of the first steps such a better man ought to take might be to clean out the Curia from top to bottom. That means send them packing, summarily and without exception, back to wherever they last had real jobs. Many in the Church might be surprised at how little most of the Curia would be missed. I also am warming to the notion that every existing Cardinal should have his red hat pulled and should be evaluated for possible laicization. I do believe things are probably that bad, as McCarrick was only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Those few who really deserve to br called Princes of the Church could then be reinstated, and the rest of the College reconstituted with good, young, faithful bishops and priests.
He sounds like obama, speaks much but fails to say anything meaningful.
My first thought, unhappily, was of Swift’s Academicians of Laputa. That the condition of things in the Church have deteriorated beyond parody into a mirror image of one of her most vicious critics is blood chilling.
what does “instrumentalize” mean? socio-psycho jargon!
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Bob, the word doesn’t appear in Francis’s text, so I’m guessing those mod-symp SSPX’ers came up with it.