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Post by hibernicus on Nov 21, 2015 20:09:10 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 19, 2015 19:56:23 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on May 26, 2017 21:16:28 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 22, 2017 19:27:11 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 31, 2017 19:18:58 GMT
Rod Dreher (who is Orthodox) comments on an incident in Belgium when Catholic traditionalists protested at an Evangelical service being held in the Catholic cathedral to celebrate the Reformation. He thinks commemorating the Reformation (or the Great Schism), preferably in a spirit of mutual penitence, is one thing, but celebrating it in a Catholic church suggests a very strange attitude. There are quite a few comments on the parlous state of Belgium in the combox, including one which notes that the Katholieke Universitet Leuven now insists on being referred to as KU Leuven and woe betide anybody who spells out what KU stands for. The commenter says it's as if the place had been hit by a neutron bomb - it looks the same but the life has been extinguished. Some time ago I visited the old Irish College in Leuven (now a centre for Irish Studies). It was sad to see what used to be the chapel turned into an office, with a stained-glass window still on one wall and dry holy water stoups outside the door. www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/reformation-ecumenism-of-indifference/
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 6, 2017 21:00:57 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 21, 2018 23:26:19 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 26, 2018 21:29:54 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 31, 2018 20:35:36 GMT
Rod Dreher has a post on the collapse of Catholicism in Quebec post-1960: www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/fruits-of-the-quiet-revolution-catholic-church-quebec/He links to this useful summary: www.culturewitness.com/2017/07/falling-from-grace-rise-and-fall-of.htmlRead the discussion in Dreher's combox for further details (some from native Quebecois) and other material (including comparisons with Ireland - I hadn't realised the role of exposes of abuse in religious-order-run charitable institutions under Duplessis). The point that Quebec was more integralist in the C20 than the C19 is interesting because I think the same is true of Ireland and within Irish Catholicism. The extent of Protestant/Anglophone domination of business, and the view that this reflected the deficiencies of Church-run education (leading to rapid secularisation of schools in Quebec and to a more gradual process in Ireland) is also a parallel. I used to read a little Canadian history in my early 20s and it was reading about the Quiet Revolution which first gave me an inkling of what might very well happen, and subsequently has happened, in Ireland. We've had the Quiet Revolution in slow motion, and I think we're going all the way down. BTW in relation to the uses to which deconsecrated churches are being put in Quebec,remember that a Repeal the 8th event was scheduled for Smock Alley Theatre just before the referendum (it got cancelled, I think because there was a conflict of interests involving the use of state funding in connection with a political event). Smock Alley Theatre used to be St Michael and John's Church, the first to ring a bell after Catholic Emancipation, where the young Ireland historian Fr Meehan was a curate and Archbishop Walsh was an altar boy. The altar was carved by Pearse's father. I know the place was a theatre before it was a church, but it was a church much longer than it was a theatre and now that's forgotten. Sez it all about modern Ireland. Kevin Myers once wrote a piece predicting that in the not too distant future Loreto on the Green would be a lapdancing academy and the Pro-Cathedral would be a madrassa (Islamic religious school). Sounds dreadfully plausible.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Aug 7, 2018 9:21:53 GMT
Just spoke to a friend of mine who is studying Canon Law in Leuven. He had to attend a seminar recently at which six academics spoke, four Catholics with a traditional Calvinist and a Moslem. 5% of deaths in Belgium are euthanasia cases and currently there is a proposal before Parliament to allow anyone over 75 to end their life on coming to a conclusion with their doctor that they had lived a complete life. Only the two non Catholics had a problem with this at the conference. And Belgium was model we had to follow...
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Post by maolsheachlann on Aug 7, 2018 10:04:37 GMT
Just spoke to a friend of mine who is studying Canon Law in Leuven. He had to attend a seminar recently at which six academics spoke, four Catholics with a traditional Calvinist and a Moslem. 5% of deaths in Belgium are euthanasia cases and currently there is a proposal before Parliament to allow anyone over 75 to end their life on coming to a conclusion with their doctor that they had lived a complete life. Only the two non Catholics had a problem with this at the conference. And Belgium was model we had to follow... I wonder what a "complete life" means?
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Aug 8, 2018 8:25:18 GMT
Well that's what the Belgian parliament is trying to define
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 12, 2018 21:49:47 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Nov 23, 2018 15:18:33 GMT
I looked through the Catholic Herald today. I am appalled at the effort made to legalise abortion in Andorra. It shows the enemy is leaving no stone unturned.
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 2, 2018 21:11:41 GMT
The Isle of Man recently introduced a very far-reaching abortion law as well. There seems to be a concerted effort to overrun the remaining pro-life jurisdictions, especially those which are small and easily influenced or where the political establishment is soggy (that's us). I hope the Poles put up a better resistance than we did.
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