tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post7340502825618315463..comments2024-03-29T00:40:55.729+11:00Comments on Cardinal Pole's Blog on Church and State: Notes: Wednesday, November 9-Monday, November 14, 2011Cardinal Polehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-72274775355538257272011-11-22T01:56:49.715+11:002011-11-22T01:56:49.715+11:00Thanks for your comment, Mr. Crane. I do indeed af...Thanks for your comment, Mr. Crane. I do indeed affirm that every State must make Catholicism its State religion and that every State must make the Catholic Church its Established Church. The problem of how to prevent clergymen from abusing their status in Catholic Confessional States is, I think, not one for which it is possible to formulate universal solutions at the level of principle, since it seems to me to be a practical rather than a theoretical problem.Cardinal Polehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-44116302413060209472011-11-22T01:53:28.802+11:002011-11-22T01:53:28.802+11:00Thanks for bringing that post by Fr. Blake to my a...Thanks for bringing that post by Fr. Blake to my attention, Matthias. I join with him in desiring prayers for the respective souls of Mary I. and Reginald Pole; I prayed especially for Her late Majesty yesterday and will pray especially for His late Eminence today.<br /><br />And I was glad to see, originally at Mr. Schütz's blog, that you had converted to Catholicism. God bless you.Cardinal Polehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-83344510834134425482011-11-19T21:56:02.707+11:002011-11-19T21:56:02.707+11:00Your Eminence, I'm curious as to one aspect of...Your Eminence, I'm curious as to one aspect of Catholic teachings on government. If national administrations are to be explicitly confessional - and I presume (perhaps wrongly) from other posts of yours that this is what you would like to see - then how, in practice, do you stop massive sex abuse within the Church? <br /><br />The horror stories now emerging from the Irish Church, and often dealing with the days when Ireland's governance was as openly theocratic as (say) Spain's and Portugal's, are hardly very encouraging. Clearly forces outside the Church bureaucracy itself - such as the police - were pretty much powerless to act against clerically cosseted perpetrators. I am not (of course) attempting to defend simple-minded democracy-worship: I am merely puzzled.L. Cranenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-51407620799816720172011-11-19T09:36:30.355+11:002011-11-19T09:36:30.355+11:00Cardinal Fr Ray Blakes blog for Thursday 17th Nove...Cardinal Fr Ray Blakes blog for Thursday 17th November reminded readers that it is the anniversary of the death of your namesake ,"the last of the Plantagenets, the last of the line of Augustine, the last Archbishop of Canterbury".<br />I was received into the Church on October and I have always identified with English Catholicism,even as a Proddy,it appealed to me . I told the priest who officiated at my reception that I was an Anglo Catholic- he looked askance,until I said ,yes of that stream prior to the vissititudes of Henry the VIII and his kids. ( Oh I was received by the rector of Melbourne's Latin Mass Community)Matthiasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-8496602294009599092011-11-18T17:38:04.315+11:002011-11-18T17:38:04.315+11:00Thank you very much for that information, Peregrin...Thank you very much for that information, Peregrinus.Cardinal Polehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606972767215157799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632463161266737914.post-813850965227093622011-11-15T18:41:45.917+11:002011-11-15T18:41:45.917+11:00Yo, Reggie!
Regarding the appointment of bishops,...Yo, Reggie!<br /><br />Regarding the appointment of bishops, you want <i>Christus Dominus</i> (Decree concerning the Pastoral Office of Bishops) par. 20:<br /><br /><i>”. . . this sacred ecumenical synod declares that the right of nominating and appointing bishops belongs properly, peculiarly, and per se exclusively to the competent ecclesiastical authority. <br />Therefore, for the purpose of duly protecting the freedom of the Church and of promoting more conveniently and efficiently the welfare of the faithful, this holy council desires that in future no more rights or privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation for the office of bishop be granted to civil authorities. The civil authorities, on the other hand, whose favorable attitude toward the Church the sacred synod gratefully acknowledges and highly appreciates, are most kindly requested voluntarily to renounce the above-mentioned rights and privileges which they presently enjoy . . .”</i>Peregrinusnoreply@blogger.com