tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post3116511228698416956..comments2024-01-25T07:06:29.238-05:00Comments on THE HERESY HUNTER: NOVALIS PUBLISHERS: DISSEMINATING DISSENTTH2http://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-27157625560025927872012-11-27T11:42:42.261-05:002012-11-27T11:42:42.261-05:00 Novalis is well well well known for its left lean... Novalis is well well well known for its left leaning and often times erroneous publications-- you dont seem to be very well updated on what they really publish! gaeliclassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-21101349869153134302012-11-27T11:38:56.387-05:002012-11-27T11:38:56.387-05:00 that parish should be reported to the local Bisho... that parish should be reported to the local Bishop/Cardinal and to the Vatican.... Baum is excommunicated..-- the pastor has gone against the Pope himself ... ('the sweet Christ on earth).. by doing this..... dont let this lie...gaeliclassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-6672478598707128062011-12-02T06:45:44.563-05:002011-12-02T06:45:44.563-05:00Hey, what are Baum and De Roo doing with plastic w...Hey, what are Baum and De Roo doing with plastic water bottles?<br /><br />Quick, somebody call Wiseguy...Hello, Winnipeg?Vox Cantorisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-38231269924611803362010-10-02T12:47:24.167-04:002010-10-02T12:47:24.167-04:00Hi Steve: Apologies.... this is my first hearing o...Hi Steve: Apologies.... this is my first hearing of the book. Last time I checked Joan Chittister's book "God's Tender Mercy" was profiled as a new release, mentioned in Novalis' Fall Publishing Letter (letter has since been removed since I posted about it).<br /><br />Do not know anything about that book, but my guess is that it will soon receive a critical review (from an orthodox Catholic).<br /><br />Keep up the excellent work at SoCon.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-27643451784153865882010-10-02T10:29:23.724-04:002010-10-02T10:29:23.724-04:00Hey TH2, have you seen the latest book off the Nov...Hey TH2, have you seen the latest book off the Novalis press? It's called "Baptizing Harry Potter: A Christian Reading of J.K. Rowling". Do you know anything about it?<br /><br />http://www.dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/news-from-the-diocese-of-york/01389.html<br /><br />God bless,<br /><br />SteveSteve Ghttp://www.socon.ca/or_bust/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-67844292072770422922010-07-02T20:37:17.944-04:002010-07-02T20:37:17.944-04:00You know, Mary, I have no ill will toward her - an...You know, Mary, I have no ill will toward her - and God bless her. But I have loudly called out the elephant in the room while everyone else, even those claiming to be of orthodox bent, are sticking their heads in the sand. The fact that Novalis publishes Kung, Chittister and an excommunicated, Marxist ex-priest (let alone the rest), while claiming itself to be authentically Catholic, is an absolute scandal.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-64182619907201501222010-07-02T17:57:22.010-04:002010-07-02T17:57:22.010-04:00TH2, you are a concert virtuoso, and I hold up my ...TH2, you are a concert virtuoso, and I hold up my lighter to you.<br /><br />If I were an "orthodox" writer, I can't imagine selling my work to such a publisher. Not only that, but I will not give one cent to publishers with the reputation you've cited.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03854869025172522554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-12652413040791273642010-06-27T20:28:58.508-04:002010-06-27T20:28:58.508-04:00As for my "tone" - that old ploy does no...As for my "tone" - that old ploy does not work anymore either. A good post of this matter is at:<br />http://skellmeyer.blogspot.com/2010/06/honoring-ides-of-christ.html<br /><br />I thoroughly addressed all your comments and your having a "good laugh", of course, just once again verifies my main contention against the Canadian Catholic MSM.<br /><br />Nice try.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-91748146857558666482010-06-27T15:45:20.692-04:002010-06-27T15:45:20.692-04:00Well, I had a good laugh despite my wish to be as ...Well, I had a good laugh despite my wish to be as kindly as Joe Sinasac. Obviously there's no point arguing with a guy who trusts to his tingling "spidey sense" instead of to actual knowledge. <br /><br />I don't think we'll be seeing you in "First Things" any time soon, since this is hardly the writing, tone or spirit we need to reform the reform. I still find it significant that you make so free with the names and reputations of others without putting your own name and reputation on the line.<br /><br />Since you are a big Lewis fan, I'll just suggest a quick meditation upon the dwarves in the "New Narnia" of "The Last Battle" who can only see the stable they'd been shut up in.D Cummings McLeanhttp://catholicregister.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-63301502484052748952010-06-27T13:59:09.982-04:002010-06-27T13:59:09.982-04:00[continued]
CM: "This time I will confine my...[continued]<br /><br />CM: "This time I will confine myself to stating that if you think I am a proponent of the Kungsian "spirit" of Vatican II, you don't actually read the Catholic Register, just secondhand reports from time to time... well, you could if you actually read my columns."<br /><br />TH2: I do read the Register, before in print form and now online - but certainly not to get reliable news and information on Catholic affairs. For this, I have a suite of other reliable Catholic news/information sites in my blog's link list. I visit the Register only to see what the apparatchiks and careerists are thinking. If deemed warranted, I post (or will post) on it. Once again: I do not take the time to read your columns (perhaps I will do so in the future). BLOT 10.<br /><br />CM: "Also, what Msgr. Foy did not mention in his article about Joe Sinsac's review is that Sinasac feels that, having read Kung's book IT WAS HARD TO BE SYMPATHETIC to Kung. Here is a link to the actual review...Msgr. Foy is in his 90s, so he has an excuse not to have read or absorbed what Sinasac was really trying to say (i.e. that Kung is a not very likeable, resentful man with a bee in his bonnet about the Holy Father) before commenting. No younger commentator does. "<br /><br />TH2: I read the review. It is linked up in note 49 in my article. Sympathetic? This does not override the concluding statement of the article, which I re-quote to refresh your memory: "the church needs people like Kung even when they are wrong and disagreeable. Sometimes they can also be right." If you think otherwise, then I venture to say that you live in a parallel dimension on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. Re: Msgr. Foy - I really like how you try to nullify this great mind of the Canadian Church with the condescending inference that he does not possess all of his mental faculties due to old age. I may refer to Baum and Kung as "fossils", but this is meant in an ideational sense and the fact that their physical bodies are old - not that their minds cannot "absorb" information. Your inference betrays that typical MSM haughtiness. The great medieval historian/philosopher Etienne Gilson wrote as an octogenarian, however you will not find any of his books at Novalis. Incidentally, my latest copy of Catholic Insight (June 2010) has an article by Msgr. Foy. BLOT 11.<br /><br />CM: "I am amused by your advice that I read what a Protestant has to say about heretics. Low church Anglicanism is a-ok in your books, then?"<br /><br />TH2: It is well known, and is a common acceptation, that Lewis (as expressed in his writings) is a good friend of authentic Catholicism. Many orthodox Catholic writers indicate his influence on their thought. That you, apparently, are oblivious to this fact is, not "amusing", but rather (more intensely) hilarious. BLOT 12.<br /><br />[END RESPONSE]TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-52483581560383873622010-06-27T13:57:57.508-04:002010-06-27T13:57:57.508-04:00TH2 (continued): As for the Register - when I read...TH2 (continued): As for the Register - when I read editorial's condescendingly telling me that I, as a middle class consumer, am responsible for a bogus theory called "global warming", or its anti-free market platitudes, and its general socialist worldview; when I read Swan writing some puff piece on some obscure, radicalized Jesuit who wets his pants every time the term "liberation" is invoked; when I read the collarless Ron Rolheisher (minus the "Fr.") reducing Catholicism to a "denomination" as that "I'm OK you're OK" tripe effuses from his pen, and so forth - all of this communicates a leftist, politicized "Catholicism" that grovels for attention and "respectability" by the liberal secular world. BLOT 4.<br /><br />CM: "Try to see this from my point of view. As a tradition-minded, orthodox, post-"spirit-of-Vatican-II" Latin Mass goer, I get a lot of flack from the more, shall we say, progressive elements."<br /><br />TH2: Welcome to the party, pal. BLOT 5.<br /><br />CM: "The fact that the Catholic Register and Novalis are willing to publish me is quite a relief to me as an author and a Canadian Catholic. "<br /><br />TH2: Good for you. That's just great. Have a ball, drink a glass of milk, eat a cheese sandwich, drive a bus off a cliff. Whatever. With respect to being published by Novalis, I am glad to see that your conscious is clear. Mine wouldn't be. Why not try authentic Catholic publishers?... like Ignatius Press, etc. BLOT 6.<br /><br />CM: "However, here you are banging into the heads of other tradition-minded people that the Catholic Register and Novalis are entirely, irretrievably bad. And this makes my life, speaking as an orthodox Catholic writer, more difficult because other orthodox people, if they accept your thesis, will reject me as some kind of looney lib simply because of my publishers. And therefore they will miss out on writing they might enjoy and joy in the slow resurgence of orthodoxy into the marketplace."<br /><br />TH2: That's your problem. I have problems too - and deal with them when confronted as such. I suggest you do the same. "Slow resurgence in the marketplace"? Where? At Novalis? At the Register? At the Western Catholic Reporter? At the Prairie Messenger? In the US - yes. In Canada?...Spare me. BLOT 7.<br /><br />CM: "I suppose it's okay for Michael Coren, the latest columnist to join the Catholic Register ranks, because he is so well known for his views that the idea he could be some kind of arch-heretic is laughable, but it is not so nice for a younger writer like me."<br /><br />TH2: I have been an admirer of Coren since the mid-1990s, have a link to his site in my blog, and (in a previous post) highlighted that he is the exception at CR. Of course, he is also the token conservative - a real conservative Catholic with the gonads to tell it like it is. Although, he is a commentator, not part of the editorial board, where the principal approach/philosophy of the paper is controlled. It therefore follows that your comment here is a non sequitur. "...not nice for a younger writer like me": I repeat - it's not about you. Get over yourself. Read the header of this blog and you will see that this is not necessarily a "nice" place. If you want "nice"go to the Vox Nova blog. If you are unable to deal with adversarial positions or challenges, you are in the wrong business. BLOT 8.<br /><br />CM: "Essentially what I am suggesting is that you not napalm the whole village without checking to see if any of your own troops are in it first."<br /><br />TH2: My comments above sufficiently provide the answer this suggestion. BLOT 9.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-15262312425743185262010-06-27T13:56:32.237-04:002010-06-27T13:56:32.237-04:00TH2: Why should reviewers be "nice"? Th...TH2: Why should reviewers be "nice"? There is an obligation to be? Even if you "hate" the book? Are you kidding me? We're talking about theology and Church dogma here, not the ephemerous nonsense of post-modernist philosophy and literature. A review of a book on (strictly speaking) Catholic theology must address the ideas presented therein, intercomparing them with, and viewed within the light of, Church teaching, tradition, so forth. If the thesis presented is consistent with Catholic theology/philosophy/sociology/morality, then the idea(s) is correct, promising, fruitful, beneficial and so on. But it is not "nice". If it is inconsistent, then it is erroneous, wrong, false, but neither is "hate" involved. Why should this politically correct emotionalism be brought into the arena? For it has been this niceness, this false charity, this supposed "tolerance", which has permitted heresy to gradually permeate into the Church's inner workings. Give a heretic an inch and he'll take a mile. "Love", "nice", "hate", "kinder" - this is Oprah crap. And it is exactly this Oprah crap (i.e. dealing with heresy and apostasy in a touchy-feely-we-are-the-world manner) that has been the bane of Catholic journalism and book publishing for years. My experience also shows that people who treat heresy in such a manner do so in the hope of getting an approving wink from the intelligentsia of the prevailing ideology of the day. They want to be "accepted", to be part of "in" crowd. Old story. BLOT 3.<br /><br />CM: "What I object to is not your trashing of dodgy dinosaurs like Kung but your smearing of the Catholic Register and Novalis and, what the heck, Joe Sinasac, who is by no means "an enemy within." (Really, the mind boggles.)"<br /><br />TH2: You have a personal stake in this matter and therefore I deem your comments in the defence of your friends to be subjective in origin....When the Publishing Director of a supposedly "Catholic" book publisher prints and explicitly advertises works by manifest and very famous heretics, who themselves are explicit in their antagonisms against Church teaching and tradition; when this is permitted to continue for years; when this person writes approvingly of the world's most notorious heretic; when this agency publishes the books and periodical of a Marxist, excommunicated priest who to this day is on a world tour ideationally vandalizing all that is Catholic; when all kinds of social justice types, antinomians and New Agers (to the exclusion of conservative-minded Catholics) are allowed to write pathetic, infantile blurbs in the Sunday Missal; when it's "award winning" pastoral magazine is probably the most corniest, pathetic thing ever devised by clique of aging, hippy baby boomers; when almost every text on history, exegesis, theology, etc. published is liberal/leftist leaning; when I see my friends and relatives swallow all of this anti-Catholic crap (like little innocent babies), thinking it is authentic Catholicism, but thereafter affecting their lives in detrimental ways... and much, much more - then, yes, I say absolutely that Novalis and its controllers are enemies of the Catholic Church. The fact that you and your friends deem this of little import, that you are oblivious to the ramifications upon the faithful, is astounding, but not surprising given the current climate of dilettantism in the Canadian Catholic MSM. It is that very attitude which is most dangerous. That lack of courage, that fear, to call evil an evil. That pantywaist who sweeps things under the carpet, to ignore that quiet, hushed malevolence. It is the sin of omission. Yes, I say it again emphatically: Novalis is an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church. Period. <br /><br />[continued next block]TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-43172260946915100492010-06-27T13:54:57.699-04:002010-06-27T13:54:57.699-04:00Ms. Cummings McLean:
At the outset I state suspic...Ms. Cummings McLean:<br /><br />At the outset I state suspicion on the motives of someone from the Catholic MSM insisting that I respond to her comments, that you perhaps have been dispatched to engage in debate so as to fulfill whatever objective. My spidey senses are tingling - but just a little. Nonetheless, here are my responses to your comments (in separate comment blocks due to Blogger restrictions):<br /><br />CM: "How could anyone in the Canadian Catholic MSM look upon you with contempt? We don't even know who you are. No name, no shame. If I looked upon you with contempt, we wouldn't be having this little conversation."<br /><br />TH2: Incorrect. You missed the point. It's not about me, my reaction (whatever it may be) to that contempt (e.g. "little conversation"). It's the contempt I regularly witness against orthodox Catholics in general and their resultant frustrations, which are nowhere adequately/thoroughly addressed and/or expressed in the Canadian Catholic MSM, save blogs (recently) and Catholic Insight - just read the Letters to the Editor at Catholic Insight to get a sense of this ongoing frustration, of personal experiences, and so on. BLOT 1.<br /><br />CM: "Quite obviously you have not been reading my work if you think I am an apologist for Baum, Hans Kung, Chittister or the "spirit" of Vatican II. Au contraire."<br /><br />TH2: It was not asserted that you are "apologist" for these enemies of the Church. That was not stated. It is your own mental concoction, a reflex very likely due the fact that Novalis, as a publisher and promotor of these heretics, was being straightforwardly challenged - and no, I have not been reading your work. I am "quite obviously" uninterested (sorry, I guess TH2 is not "up on" the new wave of chic writers). You're going to have to find someone else to feed your ego. Apparently, you are making this whole thing about yourself (but your name/book was not indicated in the post), although because you have been (or are) retained by CR/Novalis - and since multitudinous evidences have now been furnished exposing heresy/apostasy endemic to these publishing bodies (whether subtle or blatant, also by others in addition to myself)... These are now forcing you to deal with the issue head-on, as it were. The conflict between authentic Catholicism and the heresy/apostasy advocated by and with those for whom you work has been made salient to your mind. Accordingly, the reasonable deduction is that you are taking my article on Novalis as a kind of existential threat upon yourself as a writer. I presented the facts, and commented upon them in a manner bluntly orthodox within the cold blue light of reason. How that affects you is not under my control. BLOT 2.<br /><br />CM: "Meanwhile, I don't think either you or Father Foy could have read Joe Sinasac's review of Kung's most recent rambles all the way through or with any understanding. It is a sad irony that the only line heresy hunters picked up in Sinasac's review was his strained attempt to say something nice--as in general book reviewers try to do. If we love a book, we try to throw in some constructive criticism. If we hate a book, we try to say something nice. I have to admit I don't remember saying anything nice about Heather Eaton's book on eco-feminism, but Joe Sinasac is kinder than I."<br /><br />[continued next block]TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-75524429573569641792010-06-26T22:34:38.326-04:002010-06-26T22:34:38.326-04:00Have not forgotten. Just too busy. Response will c...Have not forgotten. Just too busy. Response will come.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-3816672055390476152010-06-25T16:44:38.530-04:002010-06-25T16:44:38.530-04:00Ms. Cummings McLean. Do be patient. I am overloade...Ms. Cummings McLean. Do be patient. I am overloaded with work responsibilities right now and I will respond in due time.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-14371500918126278432010-06-25T16:35:11.979-04:002010-06-25T16:35:11.979-04:00As I impatiently wait for my reply to appear, I re...As I impatiently wait for my reply to appear, I realize that I might not have sent it properly. This time I will confine myself to stating that if you think I am a proponent of the Kungsian "spirit" of Vatican II, you don't actually read the Catholic Register, just secondhand reports from time to time. You can imagine my anxiety at the mistake--well, you could if you actually read my columns. <br /><br />Also, what Msgr. Foy did not mention in his article about Joe Sinsac's review is that Sinasac feels that, having read Kung's book IT WAS HARD TO BE SYMPATHETIC to Kung. Here is a link to the actual review: http://www.catholicregister.org/book-reviews/kung-vs-the-vatican-who-really-won<br /><br />Msgr. Foy is in his 90s, so he has an excuse not to have read or absorbed what Sinasac was really trying to say (i.e. that Kung is a not very likeable, resentful man with a bee in his bonnet about the Holy Father) before commenting. No younger commentator does.<br /><br />I am amused by your advice that I read what a Protestant has to say about heretics. Low church Anglicanism is a-ok in your books, then?D Cummings McLeanhttp://catholicregister.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-81596942290724392742010-06-25T04:12:09.454-04:002010-06-25T04:12:09.454-04:00How could anyone in the Canadian Catholic MSM look...How could anyone in the Canadian Catholic MSM look upon you with contempt? We don't even know who you are. No name, no shame. If I looked upon you with contempt, we wouldn't be having this little conversation.<br /><br />Quite obviously you have not been reading my work if you think I am an apologist for Baum, Hans Kung, Chittister or the "spirit" of Vatican II. Au contraire. <br /><br />Meanwhile, I don't think either you or Father Foy could have read Joe Sinasac's review of Kung's most recent rambles all the way through or with any understanding. It is a sad irony that the only line heresy hunters picked up in Sinasac's review was his strained attempt to say something nice--as in general book reviewers try to do. If we love a book, we try to throw in some constructive criticism. If we hate a book, we try to say something nice. I have to admit I don't remember saying anything nice about Heather Eaton's book on eco-feminism, but Joe Sinasac is kinder than I.<br /><br />Thank you for your prayers. What I object to is not your trashing of dodgy dinosaurs like Kung but your smearing of the Catholic Register and Novalis and, what the heck, Joe Sinasac, who is by no means "an enemy within." (Really, the mind boggles.)<br /><br />Try to see this from my point of view. As a tradition-minded, orthodox, post-"spirit-of-Vatican-II" Latin Mass goer, I get a lot of flack from the more, shall we say, progressive elements. The fact that the Catholic Register and Novalis are willing to publish me is quite a relief to me as an author and a Canadian Catholic. <br /><br />However, here you are banging into the heads of other tradition-minded people that the Catholic Register and Novalis are entirely, irretrievably bad. And this makes my life, speaking as an orthodox Catholic writer, more difficult because other orthodox people, if they accept your thesis, will reject me as some kind of looney lib simply because of my publishers. And therefore they will miss out on writing they might enjoy and joy in the slow resurgence of orthodoxy into the marketplace. <br /><br />I suppose it's okay for Michael Coren, the latest columnist to join the Catholic Register ranks, because he is so well known for his views that the idea he could be some kind of arch-heretic is laughable, but it is not so nice for a younger writer like me. <br /><br />Essentially what I am suggesting is that you not napalm the whole village without checking to see if any of your own troops are in it first.D Cummings McLeanhttp://catholicregister.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-20134109912234313062010-06-25T00:28:22.832-04:002010-06-25T00:28:22.832-04:00Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention: I am unde...Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention: I am under no obligation to reveal my name. So you know, I have never been, not now, nor intend to be, affiliated with any publisher, university or agency, etc. Not a careerist.<br /><br />I have no personal axe to grind and have no stake in this. Just the facts ma'am... Just the guy down the street with whom the Canadian Catholic MSM look upon with contempt, assuming lack of qualification/knowledge.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-16051774586628811032010-06-24T20:46:43.091-04:002010-06-24T20:46:43.091-04:00Ms. Cummings McLean:
Thank you for your criticism...Ms. Cummings McLean:<br /><br />Thank you for your criticism.<br /><br />Published by CR and Novalis, you obviously have a stake in this matter, so your comment and its tone are not unexpected. If you touch a sensitive nerve, it will react.<br /><br />The fact that Novalis published your book (I'll take your word for it no error exists therein) does not negate my thesis. Your book is about relationships, but also recall that Novalis has published works on marriage preparation that advocated proportionalism, etc.<br /><br />So what that there are some books by Novalis that are not heretical? Big deal. That was not my focus. For years now it has been an open secret that Novalis publishes heresy/apostasy. It's just now, because of the "new media" (i.e. bloggers, internet), that the Canadian Catholic MSM (to which I include yourself) have to answer when somebody issues legitimate criticisms evidencing heresy.<br /><br />"Cherry picking...baby out with the bathwater": You, apparently, do not seem to understand how heresy works. Read this quote from C.S. Lewis: "...and then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger." And it this subtle mixing of heresy, slowly, gradually over time, that is the most dangerous. That is what has been happening in the last 40+ years (refer to my quotes from Cardinal Newman at the end of the piece). May I also recommend my article: <a href="http://heresy-hunter.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-identification-of-heretics.html" rel="nofollow">On the Identification of Heretics</a><br /><br />The fact that you (apparently again) can disregard prominent heretics like Baum, Kung and Chittister (and the massive damage they have done, and are doing to, the faithful) - as if it is of no relevance - expresses, in my view, naivety, or simply an unwillingness to face harsh reality.<br /><br />But you don't have to take my word (obviously, you won't), but let me quote from recent comments made about Novalis/Catholic Register by Monsignor Vincent Foy (an intellectual giant, canonist and a loyal son of the Church):<br /><br />"Given the wall of protection the Church raises to protect her sons and daughters from dangerous literature, it was a shock to me to read a recent book review of Disputed Truth, Memoirs II, by Hans Kung in the Catholic Register.... Research shows that Novalis has also published other works of heterodox teaching... The works of Hans Kung have done immense harm to the faith. Their errors have penetrated Catholic colleges and seminaries... The heads of Catholic universties are responsible for all media of communications over which they have control. It is their duty to see that nothing is taught that is incompatible with the Magesterium of the Church. They, and those who in any university teach subjects that deal with faith or morals, must make a solemn profession of faith (c. 833 of the Code of Canon Law)... n. 2497 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 'By the very nature of their profession, journalists have an obligation to serve the truth and <b> not offend against charity in disseminating information.'</b>...I suggest that the Church, repository of the fullness of revelation, needs Hans Kung like it needs a dose of poison! What the Church needs is proclaimers and guardians of the truth."<br /><br />You can read more of what he wrote <br /><a href="http://militesveritatis.blogspot.com/2009/01/novalis-kung-and-truth.html" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /><br />Dear Lady, you and your friends at Novalis and The Catholic Register have to realize that the "spirit" of post-Vatican II playtime is over - and you're going to have to deal with it. The Lord of History is cleaning up His Church.<br /><br />You shall be included in my next Rosary intentions. I will ask Our Lady to aid you.<br /><br />TH2TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-58746240598856401992010-06-24T19:05:21.471-04:002010-06-24T19:05:21.471-04:00Cherry-picking. As admirable as is your dedication...Cherry-picking. As admirable as is your dedication to research, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. I can understand why you don't like, say, St. Paul's, but it seems extreme to write off the entire Catholic Register and all Novalis.<br /><br />Here's a challenge for you. I go to Sunday Mass in the Extraordinary Form every week. I write for the Catholic Register, and I have a book out with Novalis. See if you can find anything heretical in anything I've written for either. <br /><br />Go for it. <br /><br />Incidentally, why not write under your own name? Everyone you've mentioned above does.D Cummings McLeanhttp://catholicregister.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-23724205910056008192010-06-16T00:50:44.222-04:002010-06-16T00:50:44.222-04:00Thanks, Marco, for taking the time to write a deta...Thanks, Marco, for taking the time to write a detailed comment.<br /><br />Re: Kung - This wind bag will be able to crawl out from under his rock and castigate and vilify for only a short time more. Time is running out for him, and Baum too, who (yes) is excommunicated.<br /><br />Re: Greg at your parish - that he called you closed-minded and medieval (I would take that as a compliment, even though Baum meant it in a derogatory sense) just goes to show how heretics resort to name calling and diversion (standard tactics) instead of directly addressing the matter at hand, which they cannot because... well... their heretics.<br /><br />If there is anything that so hurts Our Lord is when his specially consecrated ones, His priests, turn away from Him and try to undermine His Church. These two fossils will soon fade away, but the Lord of History commands that we pray for our enemies. We must - and may God have mercy on their immortal souls.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-19800147435995950702010-06-16T00:09:03.465-04:002010-06-16T00:09:03.465-04:00Dude,..the fun part about 'scholars' such ...Dude,..the fun part about 'scholars' such as Fr Hans Kung and Gregory Baum(who BTW is a great friend of my parish priest which should tell you something about my parish...)is that whenever they publish material nobody can figure out what the hell the thesis is! Fr Kung published a book last year on the 'prophet' Muhammed and I still can't figure out after reading it what his opinion is! THat's the danger when you subtract objective philosophy/critical thinking from any kind of academic endeavor,..you end up writing subjective crap without a thesis!<br /><br />As for Gregory Baum,..He has spoken at my parish (I thought he was excommunicated?) regarding the changes to the Mass since VII. I brought my copy of Sacrosanctum Concilium and it almost acted as a heretic repellent,..needless to say he called me medieval, and closed minded! <br /><br />Keep up the good work Heresy Hunter!<br /><br />Peace.Optimusmastrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831854027284027308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-75270882752647184492010-06-15T19:55:23.852-04:002010-06-15T19:55:23.852-04:00Thanks for the links, Mary. Did not know about TT ...Thanks for the links, Mary. Did not know about TT Publications. The heretical publishers I come across often (from the US) are Paulist Press and Maryknoll-Orbis. In Canada, there is but one dominating "Catholic" publisher, and that is Novalis.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-5841198395239246302010-06-15T17:13:31.199-04:002010-06-15T17:13:31.199-04:00Your research is appreciated, TH2. A similarly pe...Your research is appreciated, TH2. A similarly pernicious outfit in the states is<br /><a href="http://www.twentythirdpublications.com" rel="nofollow"> Twenty-Third Publications</a>. A list of their authors, including your favorite Joanie "Babes" Chittister, is found <a href="http://store.pastoralplanning.com/mepacete.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I had the distinct displeasure of reading "Whole Community Catechesis" by Bill Heubsch, which was going to be, according to out DRE, "the model for adult catechesis in our parishes". My husband and I red-inked the whole horrible book. One of these days when I'm in a really bad mood, I'll highlight a few sections on my blog.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03854869025172522554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191489412373415438.post-63786741855189931962010-06-12T09:19:46.799-04:002010-06-12T09:19:46.799-04:00LOL on your logo comment, Al... you're right. ...LOL on your logo comment, Al... you're right. Looks something like a Picasso... weird and overrated.TH2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02375386482765377541noreply@blogger.com