tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post7833313967030571929..comments2023-11-05T03:01:56.702-05:00Comments on The Truth Will Make You Free: Personal Aside on St. Pius X - 2007Rev. Robert A. Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-23831809482302839782007-11-04T15:53:00.000-05:002007-11-04T15:53:00.000-05:00To Novak: I am trying to come to grips with the Ma...To Novak: I am trying to come to grips with the Magisterium of the Church for the last 29 years. I truly believe that the traditional metaphysics of substance is not false but inadequate even to explain something as fundamental as the universal call to holiness. I believe only the gift of self - of the "I" - can be the adequate account of that teaching.<BR/> However, to do so, you need a Rev. Robert A. Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02153655728172863692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-2422984808167086722007-09-28T11:01:00.000-04:002007-09-28T11:01:00.000-04:00The notion that Modernism was arrested by Pius X t...The notion that Modernism was arrested by Pius X then "put on the right track" by Vatican II is like saying that anti-semitism was arrested by the Allies when they won the war, but set right by the United Nations by teaching us it can be chic to hate Jews again.<BR/><BR/>There is nothing to salvage in Modernism; it does not need Vatican II or any other entity to "put it on the right track." It's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-82868042159092175212007-09-28T10:43:00.000-04:002007-09-28T10:43:00.000-04:00Yes, Modernists were not 100% wrong but the right ...Yes, Modernists were not 100% wrong but the right they might have uttered was not Modernism but part of the truth. To use Chesterton's notion about the drama of orthodoxy as the great balance, in the Modernist imbalance they could hit the mark of the balance of truth, but at that point they left the plains of Modernism even if they themselves did not recognize it being prisonsers of their own Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10315144.post-26320653392200177092007-09-21T14:59:00.000-04:002007-09-21T14:59:00.000-04:00This entire blog is EXTREMELY helpful. Many thanks...This entire blog is EXTREMELY helpful. Many thanks to the author for his work in posting his own and JPII/R-B16's thoughts and insights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com