A Very Funny Post Re: Hell and Who Gets to Go There
Poking around on the Universal Indult blog and I found this piece of heavenly common sense on the hellishly complicated topic of the fate of those who die in infancy.
I strongly advise anyone, if you ever get a chance, to go to a healing mass for people who have lost children during pregnancies. My wife and I went to a beautiful evening mass -- in Parma of all places! -- after our miscarriage in 2003. We were given a candle that we still light during family gatherings.
I won't comment on the blog you link. I get in enough drawn out debates the way it is. He is mistaken to believe that the catechism is a magesterial document. It is not. The paragraphs he cites do not have citations to any Church Council. The statements carry no weight.
ReplyDeleteI mourn for your loss and pray for your lost one.
"He is mistaken to believe that the catechism is a magesterial document. It is not. The paragraphs he cites do not have citations to any Church Council. The statements carry no weight."
ReplyDeleteDo you have any idea how badly you lampoon yourselves when they make ridiculous comments like this?
I take it you follow the Feenyite/BOD/EENS obsessive compulsive school of thought?
And Feeney is "magisterial" but the CCC ain't?
Oh brother...
Brian, thanks for chiming in.
ReplyDelete"...you lampoon yourselves..."
Did you mean to say "yourself"? To be honest, I don't know what MZF is talking about. But no one mentioned Fr. Feeney, as I recall. So, am I missing something?
Anyway, like your site.
The individual doctrines that the catechism affirms have no other authority than that which they already possess.-Cardinal Ratzinger("The Catechism and the Optimism of the Redeemed," 479)
ReplyDeleteRatzinger certainly isn't a Feeneyite, but he was pretty respected in the Church, last I checked.
"...you lampoon yourselves..."
ReplyDelete"Did you mean to say "yourself"? To be honest, I don't know what MZF is talking about."
Yes, I was referring to the mz forrest types...who claim the CCC is not in any way to be considered the teaching of the Church.
Sorry for my typo, it made it a bit difficult to interpret.
And thanks for the kind words.