tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post3387715988180918967..comments2024-01-09T15:49:37.273-05:00Comments on THE TENTH CRUSADE: Lord of the WorldTTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-86433182134192403512012-01-04T15:42:22.775-05:002012-01-04T15:42:22.775-05:00The Vatican website is The Resource on this topic:...The Vatican website is The Resource on this topic:<br /><br />http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_<br />councils/interelg/documents/<br />rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_<br />new-age_en.htmlJudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-30874867550670474372012-01-02T08:31:53.323-05:002012-01-02T08:31:53.323-05:00Breathnach - thanks for the recommendation. I'...Breathnach - thanks for the recommendation. I'll get it on my list! I think it will all be too familiar - haha.<br /><br />Judy, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on folks who speak about Christ with a THE in front of His Holy Name. I understand the syntax as it relates to theology but it has always struck me as weird when people can't talk about Him in the First person grammatically. <br /><br />The Carol. :)TTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738875888053745269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-71904371052021238772011-12-31T19:48:56.125-05:002011-12-31T19:48:56.125-05:00First Big Clue that something is off: " TH...First Big Clue that something is off: " THE Christ"<br />New AgeJudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015949969530867456.post-46285285162119918342011-12-31T10:38:47.763-05:002011-12-31T10:38:47.763-05:00Carol,
Kudos for putting the "Lord of the Wo...Carol,<br /><br />Kudos for putting the "Lord of the World" at the top of your reading list. It's a magnificent and prescient novel.<br /><br />Another "end times" piece that is worth reading is Graham Greene's short story "The Last Word". It is a disturbing (but necessary) imaginative reflection on the persecution that lies ahead for the Church.<br /><br />Greene was a willful sort, who struggled with the Faith and was often on the cusp of heresy. Still his integrity never allowed him to water Faith down into a prop to justify his admitted sinfulness. <br /><br />Greene had a fascination with stigmata and other extraordinary manifestations of the supernatural. When Greene heard about Padre Pio in the 40s , he went to observes him saying Mass at his monastery in Italy. However, he would not take the opportunity to meet personally with Padre Pio because he said, he knew he would have to change his life if he did. Upon his death he was still carrying the same picture of Padre Pio in his wallet from the 1940s.<br /><br />I contrast this willfulness, which calls sin "sin" with the self justification and self satisfaction of so many catholic lite "catholycs" like your correspondent. I truly believe that self satisfied "faith" is a much greater obstruction to finding God than the willfulness of a Greene. The one admits there is something outside of the self, the other is lost within a phantasmagoria of the self.breathnachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308036185276331387noreply@blogger.com