Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ty Damian.
Why should anyone be unwilling to defend Scott Hahn?
I’d like to suggest a thought exercise to Mr. Rodriguez, who is so outraged that someone (Scott Hahn) would approve of a bishop who offered reasonable criticism of a Pope:
Imagine the year is 964. The reign of Pope John XII has just ended, when that Pope was killed by a man who caught Pope John in bed with his wife. That same Pope had ordered the murder of several people and scandalized Rome by giving papal lands to one of his mistresses.
Imagine a bishop had criticized that Pope, and a respected theologian had said “I believe this criticism is deserved”.
Would Mr. Rodriguez still be outraged that people dared offer reasonable criticism of Pope John XII, and others would defend such criticism; or would he still consider those scandalized Catholics a “problem” in the Church simply because the person they dare criticize is a Pope?
Hyperpapalism, as perfectly demonstrated here by Mr. Rodriguez, of whom I have never heard before, remains a major problem with the American Catholic Church.
I think it’s selective hyperpapalism, Frank … I’d wager Mr. Rodriguez didn’t defend B16 so zealously.
CAG & Frank Spot on!…Not surprising that Cafeteria Catholics like Mr. Rodriguez become Cafeteria Ultramontanists when it’s their guy in the Chair.
So, according to Señor Rodriguez, the problem with the American Catholic Church is that so much of it is still Catholic.
Frank isn’t just a bad pope. He is a bad catholic to begin with. He should have washed out in the seminary.