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Cardinal Journet and Other Things

September 1st, 2006

Charles Cardinal Journet

Last night a response to my latest against Bishop W.:

Hi Again, Your Excellency,

I knew you'd be a little 'out-of-sorts' with the latest Bp. Williamson interview. Mmmm ... the Bp.'s thinking to me is quite modernist; nothing is ever quite what it is (the Clintonian remark, "it depends on what the meaning of what 'is' is). I had the exact same thoughts when Bp. Williamson said that Benedict has a sick mind and is really not responsible for what he's doing. Why'd they excommunicate Luther: he didn't know what he was doing! Does anyone? Why should I be held responsible for any mortal sin; I just don't know what I am doing; I've got a sick mind.

If you do, we all do - we're all products of the modern age after all.

Further thought, Pope Benedict's little shuffle of the Curia to satisfy the accountants because of the Vatican's financial losses in the last 4-5 years, doesn't quite equate with a new hermeneutic for Vatican II. In the words of the commerical for Wendy's, "Where's the beef"!

Oh, by the by, I thought you might enjoy the following line from Fr. Cekada (taken from Cekada's response to Fr. Scott's "What is one to think of priests that leave the Society of St. Pius X", not nice by the way)

"It is perhaps for this reason that a Vatican cardinal once sarcastically dismissed the Society of St. Pius X as “Port-Royal sans intelligence” — Jansenism without the brains.

Yes and what did they say of the nuns from the convent at Port-Royal ? "They are as pure as angels, and as proud as devils."

The Cardinal by the way was Cardinal Journet. Comment from someone about Cardinal Journet, "... from memory he himself only used the Novus Ordo in Latin with the Roman Canon and towards the altar, describing even this as a heroic effort of obedience."

I've always thought highly of Cardinal Journet. Now, if even he stuck with the "Church" looks like we're OK. What are your thoughts about Cardinal Journet? Was he a bishop at VII? I thought he was quite arespected theologian.

Thanks for the response and time, and very entertaining articles.

I checked Catholic Hierarchy out and they had his date of death in 1975 yes he was at the Council along with Cardinal Cottier the now retired Swiss theologian.

+TF