tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post883415662097097881..comments2024-03-25T17:14:03.066-07:00Comments on The New Theological Movement: What we know of Jesus' life from St. John alone, and what we would not know if we only had the Fourth GospelFather Ryan Erlenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-45806095388431489942012-12-29T23:57:23.245-08:002012-12-29T23:57:23.245-08:00Father,
I am sorry if I am going off tangent, but...Father,<br /><br />I am sorry if I am going off tangent, but why do you think His Holiness wrote "Jesus of Nazareth" and choose to present a modernistic view of the Gospel? I realize the Pope wrote this book more as a scholar than in his role as St. Peter's successor, but it does create a certain amount of consternation.Clinton R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-87400079075927968742012-12-29T15:47:21.350-08:002012-12-29T15:47:21.350-08:00That is why I like you so much, Fr. Ryan - you are...That is why I like you so much, Fr. Ryan - you are honest and face facts instead of trying to whitewash and do damage control.<br />I, too, wish he had never written "Jesus of Nazareth". But he did write it as a private theologian and not the Vicar of Christ.<br />The Holy Ghost continues to be with His Church.<br /><br />You are always in my daily prayers, Father. <br />God bless you, and a most blessed New Year to you filled with many graces!<br /><br />VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-33519461963273026022012-12-29T15:18:14.952-08:002012-12-29T15:18:14.952-08:00Dear Fr. You note that his personal writings (that...Dear Fr. You note that his personal writings (that is, what he personally believes) are a bit troubling (to say the least) but that his official teachings uphold the tradition but how is the average reader to know that he must distinguish between the Pope of personal belief and the Pope of the Magisterium; and what does that do to the ideas of integrity; is he two men?<br /><br />When have we Catholics, to say nothing about Non-Catholics, Jews, Mahometans, atheists, etc, ever before been expected to dissect and discriminate between the personal beliefs of the Pope vs his Magisterial beliefs and since when have we, and non-Catholics, been expected to calmly accept the idea that it is ok that such a radical contradiction be considered acceptable or capable of resolution?<br /><br />Really, this is quite troubling; and who does not think it likely that readers of his Trilogy would be wrong to think that what the Pope wrote in those books is what the Catholic Church believes?<br /><br />What a nightmare.<br /><br />With all due respect, Father, if Our Holy Father desires to write as an academic, I think he ought resign the Papacy and return to the University because what he is writing is damaging to the Faith.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-72813219541190295632012-12-29T08:20:29.011-08:002012-12-29T08:20:29.011-08:00@Spartacus,
While his personal writings on John ar...@Spartacus,<br />While his personal writings on John are a bit troubling, Pope Benedict's official teachings (even through his Wednesday audiences) uphold the tradition about the Beloved Disciple.<br /><br />Like you, I sometimes wish that he had never written "Jesus of Nazareth" ... or at least that he would have been more docile before his own ordinary magisterium!Father Ryan Erlenbushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07557817305024750902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-44340933632534173692012-12-29T05:29:31.238-08:002012-12-29T05:29:31.238-08:00In his trilogy about Jesus, Our Holy Father says t...In his trilogy about Jesus, Our Holy Father says that Saint john is not the author of the Gospel as we have always been told but the author is some anonymous fella named John.<br /><br />I guess that is the discontinuity within continuity.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-10450173903574440142012-12-28T20:52:59.579-08:002012-12-28T20:52:59.579-08:00From the preface of the Gospel of John in Challone...From the preface of the Gospel of John in Challoner's Douay-Rheims Bible:<br /><br />"St. Jerome relates that, when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to write the Gospel, he answered he would do it, if by ordering a common fast, they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty God; which being ended replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation coming from Heaven, he burst forth into that preface: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD."Tonitrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10361566829217833637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-48986891582830332382012-12-28T09:14:08.134-08:002012-12-28T09:14:08.134-08:00Co-Redemptrix? Hmmm. I know this gets bandied abou...Co-Redemptrix? Hmmm. I know this gets bandied about a lot. I wonder if it's so. It seems to me that the title Redeemer belongs to Christ alone. Good piece though! Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-11663091347018200192012-12-28T03:24:57.580-08:002012-12-28T03:24:57.580-08:00The Church celebrates the feast of St. John to cel...The Church celebrates the feast of St. John to celebrate the holy life of St. John the Beloved--the only disciple who remained with the Lord as he was dying on the cross; and the disciple whom Jesus entrusted his mother to. May we all experience the same love and intimacy for the Lord St. John knew.<br /><br />O Glorious Apostle, who, on account of thy virginal purity, wast so beloved by Jesus as to deserve to lay thy head upon his divine breast, and to be left, in his place, as son to his most holy Mother; I beg thee to inflame me with a most ardent love towards Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me from our Lord that I, too, with a heart purified from earthly affections, may be made worthy to be ever united to Jesus as a faithful disciple, and to Mary as a devoted son, both here on earth and eternally in heaven. Amen.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250069143472163795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-3700516224647629152012-12-27T23:50:43.713-08:002012-12-27T23:50:43.713-08:00When one earnestly reads St. John's Gospel, he...When one earnestly reads St. John's Gospel, he can come to no other conclusion that the Catholic interpretation of the Bible is the correct one. Clinton R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-39290369465105612432012-12-27T12:05:48.359-08:002012-12-27T12:05:48.359-08:00Or the Transfiguration.Or the Transfiguration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578980753063154388.post-67377979732965730812012-12-27T03:12:45.817-08:002012-12-27T03:12:45.817-08:00Am I right in remembering that we also wouldn'...Am I right in remembering that we also wouldn't have the Institution Narrative of the Eucharist?Chattohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14488939389859451887noreply@blogger.com