Well this didn't take long! Just a week or two after he was elected president of the USCCB, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is expressing some real confusion about the personhood of God Almighty. God is "whatever"? Gee - why not just resurrect a golden calf? No, we worship the Blessed Trinity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Note that Father and Son are masculine. It's the truth, like it or lump it.
This does not bode well for the USCCB. I reiterate my strong suggestion to dismantle that entire mess.
Now here's an interesting question. Do you think this heretical statement will garner 1% of the attention that the misquote of the Holy Father drew? Again, my fellow bloggers - we need to step up to this plate now!
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Friday, November 26, 2010
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The clip is too short - that smells of "out of context" much like the Pope's quoted comments, and likewise, it's off the cuff talking to a godless MSM outlet and it seems maybe he's trying to unite Thanksgiving to not just thanks for secular things to luck, like Mr. President, but to religious thanksgiving irrespective of ones identification of a diety (respective of ones understanding of and present state of being able to understand, the Full Truth). The fact that the clip is so short - SUSPECT! I imagine this struck you as well? The bishop deserves more context even if it's a boring segment. Show more "skin"!
ReplyDeleteGod the Father is neither male nor female.
ReplyDelete"By calling God "Father", the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard: no one is father as God is Father." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 239)
To "O":
ReplyDeleteSee the post above, dated Saturday 11/27. Therein is the clip from Fox News.
Michael, here's the surrounding sections from the Catechism:
ReplyDelete238 Many religions invoke God as "Father". The deity is often considered the "father of gods and of men". In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch as he is Creator of the world.59 Even more, God is Father because of the covenant and the gift of the law to Israel, "his first-born son".60 God is also called the Father of the king of Israel. Most especially he is "the Father of the poor", of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving protection.61
239 By calling God "Father", the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood,62 which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard:63 no one is father as God is Father.
240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father in relation to his only Son, who is eternally Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
When Jesus gave us the Lord's prayer, He clearly instructed us to address God as Father. This "mother, whatever" bit is not acceptable.
I agree. Jesus instructed us to call the Creator "Father", so I call Him "Father." I agree with you that the bishop made an unacceptable comment that showed little respect for God, but you said, "Note that Father and Son are masculine." Perhaps I misunderstood you. Were you referring to the name by which we call God or were you referring to God's sex?
ReplyDeleteI was referring to how we address God, and so (unfortunately) was the Archbishop. Watch again and you hear that the phrase was "call him, her, whatever you want".
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