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Post by maolsheachlann on Oct 11, 2020 7:21:30 GMT
I am reading John Cooney's biography of JC McQuaid-- the condensed version sold as part of the Irish Independent's biography series. In one passage, Cooney describes Catholic integralism as a belief that Catholic doctrine was handed down from the apostles and never changes. Later, he describes how McQuaid had his father buried with his first wife (McQuaid's mother-- he grew up thinking his step-mother was his mother). Cooney describes this as "making their marriage permanent in the grave as it was in heaven"-- perhaps he thinks Catholics have the same view of marriage as Mormons?
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 12, 2020 19:10:41 GMT
This is part of Cooney's mindset, which is to present everything that John Charles McQuaid said and did as the product of individual derangement and in general to refuse any empathy for him whatsoever. Cooney claims McQuaid's psyche was permanently disturbed by the discovery as an adolescent that his birth mother had died when he was an infant. Good catch about Cooney's misunderstanding of the meaning of integralism. This is what you get when someone is writing about what he despises and can't be bothered to take it seriously enough to understand it. (Understanding doesn't preclude disagreement.)
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 18, 2023 19:56:33 GMT
Here's a rigorist example. This columnist in OnePeterFive calls on Catholics to maintain the Lenten fast on St Patrick's Day, whether or not a dispensation has been given. Does it not occur to him that we are meant to celebrate as well as to fast on the appropriate occasions, that a feast is called a feast for a reason. What's next - being asked to fast on Christmas Day and Easter Sunday? onepeterfive.com/forgotten-customs-st-patricks-day/
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Mar 21, 2023 12:00:30 GMT
Here's a rigorist example. This columnist in OnePeterFive calls on Catholics to maintain the Lenten fast on St Patrick's Day, whether or not a dispensation has been given. Does it not occur to him that we are meant to celebrate as well as to fast on the appropriate occasions, that a feast is called a feast for a reason. What's next - being asked to fast on Christmas Day and Easter Sunday? onepeterfive.com/forgotten-customs-st-patricks-day/ That is the second dodgy piece from OnePeterFive posted here in little more than a week. The last one (about the Gotteslob in the German-speaking Church) was misleading, lacking thoroughness (though the author's PhD was included in the byline - reminds me of a Kenneth Galbraith quote "He uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post; for support rather than illumination" - reminds me of how Evangelicals use scripture too, of which the Burke family of Castlebar comes to mind). This one is just plain ignorance. For example, as in the case of the Good Friday pub closure, the St Patrick's Day pub closure which was amended in the 1970s was a relatively recent thing and it originated in Leinster House rather than from the Church. Also, St Patrick's Day, being historically a solemnity, holy day of obligation and national holiday in Ireland was not only exempt from the laws of abstinence in place on Friday, but also the laws of fasting that take place for all other days in Lent. The only exception is that if St Patrick's Day falls in Holy Week which happens very rarely and the celebration of the feast is transferred, but St Patrick's Day can never fall on Good Friday. Likewise, St Joseph's Day (19 March) and the Annunciation (25 March) are universal solemnities and the laws of fasting and abstinence don't apply, even when they are transferred to Monday as happened with St Joseph's Day this year. For Holydays of Obligation and other solemnities, when they occur on a Friday the law of abstinence or other penance don't apply. In Ireland, this would be Epiphany, St Patrick's Day (already discussed), Assumption, All Saints Day, Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day, but it would also include St Joseph, Annunciation, Nativity of St John the Baptist, Sacred Heart (always on a Friday), Ss Peter & Paul, Exultation of the Holy Cross and maybe others (this isn't definitive, but a rule of thumb is that if there is a creed in the Mass, which sloppy Irish priests leave out, there is no obligation to fast or abstain) - there are also solemnities in connexion with dioceses, parish churches and religious houses which create local exceptions. This is fasting for fasting's sake here.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 23, 2023 22:46:58 GMT
There was a fairly extensive campaign in the first decades of the C20 to close pubs on St Patrick's Day - the Cumann na nGaedheal government of the 1920s enacted it into law, but it's not quite correct to say it originated with them. (Literary censorship and compulsory Irish in schools followed the same pattern of pre-independence pressure-group campaigns and 1920s legislation.)
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 24, 2023 16:51:36 GMT
Here is an example of the ultra-trad Peter Kwasnieski applying for the Jansen Prize for Theological Rigorism. He complains that the beatification of the Ulma family, murdered by the nazis for sheltering Jews, should not have included their unborn child on the grounds that he was unbaptised. He objects to citing the Holy Innocents in this connection on the grounds that they were circumcised, which under the Old Law was equivalent to baptism, and he dismisses the possibility of baptism by blood on the grounds that this requires a conscious acceptance of martyrdom which an infant cannot form. The problem with the latter view is that it would exclude all infants from being martyrs, although many (including the Holy Innocents) are venerated as martyrs. It is also noteworthy that while Dr Kwasniewski appeals for "humility" he does not display the least doubt about the correctness of his opinion, which he portrays as certain by invoking some very dodgy reasoning (see above). Nor does it occur to him to address the point (made on other matters by such commentators as St John Fisher) that when the Holy See takes a particular position on a disputed matter this creates a presumption of the correctness of that position. Instead, Dr Kwaniewski looks forward with positive glee to this beatification being used to disprove the opinion (which I do not present as any more than an opinion) that canonisations are infallible. One gets the distinct impression that if Pope Francis recited the two-times table or read out the Ten Commandments, Dr Kwasniewski would find fault with them. crisismagazine.com/opinion/can-the-pope-declare-an-unbaptized-infant-a-martyr-and-a-saint
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