Comments on The Scholasticum: Pope's Speech at University of Regensburg

Brother, I fear you may have misunderstood my poin...

2006-09-15T19:12:00.000-04:00

Brother, I fear you may have misunderstood my point. Speaking in my own voice, the only thing I did was pose a question of clarification as to what aspects of modernity did the Pope think were "positive."

The rest of my entry was an unsolicited bit of speculation as to what the leading men of the SSPX were inclined to think of the speech particularly in light of the paragraph I quoted,

Dear Somerset,I think it is always an error of met...

2006-09-15T09:25:00.000-04:00

Dear Somerset,

I think it is always an error of methodology to hold that everythign a man says is merely a rehash of everything he has said elsewhere or on aother topic.

Christian charity requires us to believe that he is something more than an intellectual vending machine that repeats itself mindlessly.

Infact the Pope has said something quite different here:

... This attempt, painted with broad strokes, at a...

2006-09-14T22:25:00.000-04:00

... This attempt, painted with broad strokes, at a critique of modern reason from within has nothing to do with putting the clock back to the time before the Enlightenment and rejecting the insights of the modern age. The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvelous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress