tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post7022626000902323254..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: 'Agnostic' Corbyn upsets Catholics by taking CommunionThinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-67598097523799097202017-09-12T06:38:16.787+01:002017-09-12T06:38:16.787+01:00your mention of 'lust and selfishness' in ...your mention of 'lust and selfishness' in the context I referred to (love) shows, perhaps, your own preoccupation with these vices. Yes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-89121686532977677802017-09-11T23:17:52.790+01:002017-09-11T23:17:52.790+01:0022:13, that log in your eye must be extremely pain...22:13, that log in your eye must be extremely painful...and limiting.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-19729565100756395622017-09-11T23:16:53.673+01:002017-09-11T23:16:53.673+01:0021:50, I'm surprised you're capable of com...21:50, I'm surprised you're capable of coming to any conclusion, right or wrong.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-80407550044074475912017-09-11T23:15:32.730+01:002017-09-11T23:15:32.730+01:0021:18, how is your remark relevant to my comment (...21:18, how is your remark relevant to my comment (s)?Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-48686775101756670992017-09-11T22:13:19.326+01:002017-09-11T22:13:19.326+01:00Magna Carter, I will bookmark this page and read i...Magna Carter, I will bookmark this page and read it whenever I need a good laugh. Oh the irony of you talking about apologies, hurt and love. You really aren't a well person, are you? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-18352425390586125212017-09-11T21:50:03.430+01:002017-09-11T21:50:03.430+01:00I've come to the conclusion that the club bore...I've come to the conclusion that the club bore MC is Michael Dywer, a Ferns seminarian who studied in Maynooth in the 1980s for three years and was then posted to the Irish College in Rome, from which he was kicked out, partly because of alcohol abuse. I'll leave it to Pat to decide whether to redact his name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-46716916724449199622017-09-11T21:18:02.706+01:002017-09-11T21:18:02.706+01:00@13:28 Roma locutus est - causa finita!@13:28 Roma locutus est - causa finita!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-4905251523463048192017-09-11T16:26:04.488+01:002017-09-11T16:26:04.488+01:0000:09 so you 'don't claim the right to dec...00:09 so you 'don't claim the right to decide who is a Catholic and who is not' and yet, of me you state emphatically: '...and you are NOT'.<br /><br />You need to lie down for a while. The weight of such confusion on such intellectually narrow shoulders as your must be very wearying. Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-61562116949073951672017-09-11T13:28:11.423+01:002017-09-11T13:28:11.423+01:0000:30, if the description here of your 'family...00:30, if the description here of your 'family member' is reliable (I'm being cautious, not awkard, because this member is not around to defend himself against your accusations), then he seems to have been unwillingly to forgive those who 'crossed him'. (I note you admitted that he was crossed, so his state of mind and heart was in large part down to others.) Did they apologise to this man for the hurt they caused. Did they make restitution for their sins? It seems 'no' to either question. Forgiveness is usually easier when an offender says, and means, 'sorry'.<br /><br />Perhaps you are one of these offenders. Did you apologise for the hurt that you caused? Or do you, like so many other sinners, plead 'injured innocence' too much of the time?<br /><br />Your attempt to gauge the eschatological fate of this family member has more than a little schadenfreude about it; I'd be careful of that if I were you. Remember vengeance is God's, not yours.<br /><br />Speaking of vengeance, God's is love. Did you know this? And he showed it supremely in Christ 'while we were yet sinners'.<br /><br />Perhaps this family member was more sinned against than sinning. Yes?<br /><br />God judges in the round, seeing what no human eye can see, and often does not want to see (there's usually 'a log' obstructing its vision.) <br /><br />God will measure the hurt caused by all of you to this man, and then do something utterly amazing and completely counter-cultural to this life: he will have pity on him. Why? Because he acts and re-acts in ways that seem to have escaped you, and those self-righteous others: he loves, and this love seeks the salvation of even the most wretched souls, those you would appear satisfied to see damned.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-8781731791689070422017-09-11T06:13:41.804+01:002017-09-11T06:13:41.804+01:00Wise and kind advice, 00:30. Wise and kind advice, 00:30. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-36329260758797869562017-09-11T06:10:50.838+01:002017-09-11T06:10:50.838+01:00@22:01 Yes. Please pick up the gauntlet, allowing ...@22:01 Yes. Please pick up the gauntlet, allowing me to expose your stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-2166627741984011932017-09-11T00:30:05.240+01:002017-09-11T00:30:05.240+01:00MC. I had a family member who reminds me of you, h...MC. I had a family member who reminds me of you, he could never, ever accept the sincerity of people contradicting him. They were either idiots, he was always right in every situation and he became even more right as any argument (and there were many) continued. He had no friends, he was bitter and angry about ex-bosses, ex-colleagues, ex-girlfriends, ex-neighbours, ex-everybody who crossed him in the smallest way. He was clearly deeply unhappy and his only joy was to argue about everything. He is no longer with us but I don't believe that he is any place we would want to be (even if temporarily). Please take a step back, please consider that calling people names and being so obviously bitter and angry is not a good place to be spiritually. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-81922191381925552852017-09-11T00:09:43.607+01:002017-09-11T00:09:43.607+01:00I don't claim the right to decide who is a Cat...I don't claim the right to decide who is a Catholic and who is not. The Church has that right and you are NOT. The Baptism of all Christians in the prescribed form is recognised as valid but it doesn't make them Catholics. YOU ARE NOT A CATHOLIC BY ANY DEFINITION. Live with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-58558490113765430242017-09-10T22:35:19.419+01:002017-09-10T22:35:19.419+01:00Whoever 20:57 is, he or she has made a more litera...Whoever 20:57 is, he or she has made a more literate comment than yours, the adult equivalent of a child's tetchy 'S'not true, so s'not!'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-57653302024730809652017-09-10T22:32:38.055+01:002017-09-10T22:32:38.055+01:00@21:53 Emotional response to a post is neither rat...@21:53 Emotional response to a post is neither rational nor intelligent engagement. And your response appears merely emotional. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-81952705736585982432017-09-10T22:01:43.451+01:002017-09-10T22:01:43.451+01:0020:16, tell me then.20:16, tell me then.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-82709466414608211442017-09-10T22:01:02.720+01:002017-09-10T22:01:02.720+01:00(Longer sigh) And YOUR (if you aren't the othe...(Longer sigh) And YOUR (if you aren't the others who made me sigh) must-be wearisome point is, 20:14? (You DO have one, don't you?)Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-21795236802108532142017-09-10T21:57:54.831+01:002017-09-10T21:57:54.831+01:0020:57, but Francis may have abandoned the Holy Spi...20:57, but Francis may have abandoned the Holy Spirit. Yes?Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-5966963438124302052017-09-10T21:57:00.164+01:002017-09-10T21:57:00.164+01:00(Sigh) And your must-be wearisome point is, 20:09?...(Sigh) And your must-be wearisome point is, 20:09?Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-81333665106757544832017-09-10T21:54:17.416+01:002017-09-10T21:54:17.416+01:00Well said, 21:59.Well said, 21:59.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-90204937067372293652017-09-10T21:53:02.138+01:002017-09-10T21:53:02.138+01:00Okay. I'll give you an opportunity to 'cor...Okay. I'll give you an opportunity to 'correct' me. What was 'confused' about my calling you a Pharisee who presumes the right to decide who's in and who's out of the Church?Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-79376101089036618652017-09-10T20:57:21.183+01:002017-09-10T20:57:21.183+01:00Go, Francis! In the unlikely rvent that u are read...Go, Francis! In the unlikely rvent that u are reading this blog, ignore your detractors. The Holy Spirit hasn't ever abandoned you yet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-54110412366109568512017-09-10T20:16:33.038+01:002017-09-10T20:16:33.038+01:00@18:39 oh but you did. @18:39 oh but you did. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-80812406331694319452017-09-10T20:14:10.018+01:002017-09-10T20:14:10.018+01:0018:41, I'm sure the irony here evades no one. ...18:41, I'm sure the irony here evades no one. Pharisaical posters certainly, but no one else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-67766842515783007562017-09-10T20:09:33.813+01:002017-09-10T20:09:33.813+01:0019:35, Pope Francis is a blatant hypocrite, and a ...19:35, Pope Francis is a blatant hypocrite, and a very confused man. First, he declares himself no judge in relation to gay priests ('Who am I to judge?), and then he endorses a revision of the Nazi pope's (Benedict's) ban on gay candidates entering seminary, even if chaste.<br /><br />Grow up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com