tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post3984717502705416424..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: The New CardinalsPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-31424076602619778012010-10-28T03:06:25.251+01:002010-10-28T03:06:25.251+01:00Father,
Do you think that Pope Benedict's ins...Father,<br /><br />Do you think that Pope Benedict's instinct for tradition inclines him to believe that popes should be Italian?Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13769697942265014482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-71118023196191369352010-10-27T22:59:39.770+01:002010-10-27T22:59:39.770+01:00God preserve us from Ravasi. Have you ever heard h...God preserve us from Ravasi. Have you ever heard him lecture on topics in his chosen field of biblical studies? There are very detectable strains of Bultmannian scepticism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-68458812006361256322010-10-26T15:27:13.973+01:002010-10-26T15:27:13.973+01:00Just wanted you to know there is a new post up at ...Just wanted you to know there is a new post up at <br />http://thequestforthepearl.blogspot.comgurnygobhttp://thequestforthepearl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-78624424614980037742010-10-26T13:53:42.339+01:002010-10-26T13:53:42.339+01:00Ah yes Father, the Curia – semper reformanda but n...Ah yes Father, the Curia – <i>semper reformanda</i> but <i>nunquam reformata</i> apparently!<br /><br />While I recognize the need for administration in the Church, I’ve always felt that there must be something somewhat unfulfilling about working ‘in administration’ for all the clerics working at the Vatican – and <i>mutatis mutuandis</i> in diocesan chanceries, in education or in the offices of Episcopal conferences.<br /><br />I’m thinking in particular of what a priest is ordained for, versus what he may find himself doing for most of his priesthood – attending to the minutiae of administrative duties. It seems like somewhat of a waste. Yes I know that priests engaged primarily in administrative duties do supply in parishes on weekends tending to the flock whenever possible; that the Gospel can be preached in many ways; example given and salvation achieved even by doing ordinary things.<br /><br />St. Therese comes to mind and also that lay brother who achieved sanctity while being merely the Porter of the monastery (can’t recall his name offhand). But they were not priests, charged with the administration of the Sacraments and the cure of souls.<br /><br />So, a radical suggestion – why not employ Deacons to do much of the non-sacerdotal work currently done by priests? Wasn’t that what deacons were instituted for originally? And if more status or <i>dignitas</i> is seen as necessary for the job, then why not a Cardinal’s hat for some of them?GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.com