“this article which makes it abundantly clear that a strong majority of the priesthood and of practicing Catholics could not understand the point either”
Good grief. That’s what you took away from that article?
That’s why I don’t bother to try persuasion. The reason you don’t understand is not that you’re stupid, nor even that you’re bigoted. If that were the case, something might be done.
You don’t understand because you refuse to understand, and I have no patience with that.
That’s why I don’t bother to try persuasion. The reason you don’t understand is not that you’re stupid, nor even that you’re bigoted. If that were the case, something might be done.
You don’t understand because you refuse to understand, and I have no patience with that.
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I think you give him too much credit.
Well, let me quote the article. It states:
Values of Marriage. The tone of non-Catholic criticism paled in comparison with the encyclical's reception by Catholics outside the hierarchy. Some comments were almost indecently abusive. Father Alfons Sarrach, a German priest-journalist, described the encyclical as "a breath of outdated and ignorant monkish theology." Many more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this way."
That is some of what I took away from the article.
Well, let me quote the article. It states:
Values of Marriage. The tone of non-Catholic criticism paled in comparison with the encyclical's reception by Catholics outside the hierarchy. Some comments were almost indecently abusive. Father Alfons Sarrach, a German priest-journalist, described the encyclical as "a breath of outdated and ignorant monkish theology." Many more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this way."
That is some of what I took away from the article.
Well, let me quote the article. It states:
Values of Marriage. The tone of non-Catholic criticism paled in comparison with the encyclical's reception by Catholics outside the hierarchy. Some comments were almost indecently abusive. Father Alfons Sarrach, a German priest-journalist, described the encyclical as "a breath of outdated and ignorant monkish theology." Many more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this way."
That is some of what I took away from the article.