Recommended Article: "Why Heretics Hate Mary and We Should Love Her More"

Amici,

I'd like to recommend this article at OnePeterFive, "Why Heretics Hate Mary and We Should Love Her More", by Timothy Flanders. 

I wrote the following Comment to it. 

Thank you, THANK YOU, Mr. Flanders for this essay and for highlighting: "But it is even more disturbing when we read how the Rhine group at Vatican II successfully suppressed the document on the Mother of God, relegating it, by a narrow vote, to the final section in (against the protests from Eastern Catholic bishops and others)..." and noting Ratzinger's Marian "weakness". ALL those reformers, the hard core (Schillebeeckx, Rahner, Küng) and the milder revolutionaries (de Lubac, Balthasar and Ratzinger), were together weak on her. And thank you for pointing out that "Gay Blade" James Martin ignores her, as well. (True women bring out true men, after all.)

They were weak on her or ignore her because of pride, among a host of reasons, but perhaps mainly because they just didn't get it: that through the young peasant teen's freely-given Fiat, the Jewish girl Miriam's name became known throughout the Catholic world beyond, resonating down two millennia now; an utterly obscure girl from a stunningly obscure time and impossible-to-be-more obscure place became the most famous woman -- indeed, the most famous purely human being -- since Eve; and more famous than Eve, really -- because Miriam is the New Eve, and through her we have Salvation, Salvation Incarnated, which is then, through the Most Holy Eucharist, Incarnated in us.

That's the Catholic Faith, the Incarnation Incarnated in us. It's the Faith of the Historical Church down through the millennia. Protestants reject it, formally rejecting the Real Presence, legalistically denying it in their founding documents: rejecting God's Incarnation in us (and insisting God's grace is only imputed to us, not infused into us), and naturally the Muslims went them one better 1,000 years before Luther was even hatched by rejecting the Incarnation in itself, in its First Instance.

When we participate in the Most Holy Eucharist, as you-all know here, we partake of the Divine Nature of Christ AND His Human Nature; through this Real Presence, we ourselves now have the elevated Incarnated Nature of Christ in us (no matter how small and yet fragile) as well as His Human Nature, which He inherited from His Mother. We literally ARE the Blessed Mother's children. Through Our Lord, we have her DNA. And as all Jews are Jews because they inherit it from their mothers, so now do we inherit the blessings and participation in the Covenants, all through the New Covenant. For to be The People of God (a Vat II favorite phrase) we need to be literally in and of the Body of Christ, and we have that status and true condition through Mary's Fiat.

This should humble us; it should not make us prideful. Well and truly you write, Mr Flanders, that: "True devotion to Mary keeps us safe from the excesses of pride." Amen to that!

Thanks again!

An P

Just Who Will Be History's Worst Pope?

Just Who Will Be History's Worst Pope?

Alas, after the dust settles, and it will at some point, Benedict XVI will be considered the worst pope in history -- worse than Bergi the Destructor. Because of the way B16 went out, he's left confusion, and indeed chaos. Bergi could have provided all that on his own!


Ratzinger could have become a cardinal and lived in seclusion, no doubt about that. Any monastery in the world would have taken him. Let's leave him to his fate and deal with the disaster we actually have that Ratzinger so unkindly left us.

Josef Ratzinger isn't a fool, or is he? He knows most Catholics are simple folk, not Vaticanistas. They can't parse all the details. No one should expect them to! I've seen photos of him in his white sitting close by Bergi in his white as the latter reads from a document -- Ratzinger has to know how confusing that it is. What he did, and the way he did it, and the way he continues doing it, is like the pea in the Princess's bed, and dar Crom, Ratzinger has to know that.

Thus it'll be Ratzinger who goes down as the worst pope in history, not Bergi. Bergi at least has the grace to do what the Lavender Mafia appointed him to do: destroy the Church. Ratzinger has been a manipulator since his days at the Second Vatican Council. Too clever, too subtle, too much the manipulator and always and ever, too much the coward.

Thank the Lord it is God Who'll judge him. I just want to forget he ever existed, but he just won't let me.

An Préachán