tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134723288757688995.post3599176909485200336..comments2023-08-11T08:43:45.182-06:00Comments on Following the Voice within: Charlie and the City of GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134723288757688995.post-584361368960510262011-07-28T09:14:59.884-06:002011-07-28T09:14:59.884-06:00Tim, I think your description of the ecclesiology ...Tim, I think your description of the ecclesiology to which C. Chaput appeals is exactly right. You say, "For Charlie (and those of his ilk) their vision seems to be that the City of God is a perfect gem, an ordered paradise replete with high walls and pearly gates to ensure that the 'evils of the world' are kept out. It is a stable, static place of holiness where the privileged are permitted to enter once they have proven themselves suitable."<br /><br />And that's a very good description of what Cardinal Bellarmine meant when he spoke of the church as a "perfect society." Interestingly enough, at Vatican II, when the constitution on the church came up for a vote, with its attempt to describe the church as the pilgrim people of God, Karol Wojtyla, later John Paul II, voted against that definition of the church, in favor of a draft of the constitution that used Bellarmine's language of the perfect society.<br /><br />Chaput is right in line with John Paul II and Benedict in their attack on the ecclesiology of Vatican II and their attempt to reimpose Bellarmine's definition of the church. This is why he has been a rising star in the firmament of American Catholic churchmen.William D. Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246026074693891965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134723288757688995.post-16370865564208320732011-07-24T21:30:26.567-06:002011-07-24T21:30:26.567-06:00"No no, this isn't a 'lost story'..."No no, this isn't a 'lost story' of Roald Dahl..."<br /><br />## Well, it should be - though my first thought was of Charlie Brown, he of "Peanuts" fame. <br /><br />As for Comrade "Commissar Archbishop" Chaput - no doubt the Comrade Archbishop will purge out the deviationist traitors and malcontents who so besmirch the good name of our glorious Party. The Comrade Chairman, while still a member of the Presidium, did not fail to put on record his distaste for deviationists. Will the Comrade Commissar think otherwise ? Not if he values his ushanka.Megablotnoreply@blogger.com