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.
”It isn’t “traditional Catholicism” to treat the hierarchy with contempt”.
However, it is very much “synodal, progressive catholicism” for the hierarchy to treat the laity— especially trad Catholic laity— with contempt.
If you don’t think that’s true, just ask a layman from Chicago, or DC, or Austin, or Charlotte, or Milwaukee…
Or Detroit.
scolding those speaking up and not approving the blessing of sodomy and the denigration the Titles Held by Mary the Mother of God… in the “name of Holy Tradition”???
the serpent is clever.. and i’m stupid.. but not “that” stupid..
Contempt not for the hierarchy, but rather contempt for those members of the hierarchy that hold Tradition, holiness, and Truth in contempt.
A monarchist can opine that the king is an ass, but remain a monarchist. A republican can believe his representative to be a snake and still believe in the republic. The doctor may be a quack and yet not invalidate medicine.
The Bruised Optimist. Quite correct. For all his moral, diplomatic, clerical and religious offenses and shortcomings, Alexander was most traditional and orthodox in his theology. Contradictory it may seem, it fit it quite well with his idea of authority and unity in the Church that relied on divine establishment for its rules of order.