In my podcast reviews some have mentioned the Cardinal Arinze podcast.
When I first saw this graphic at American Papist I though it was a good joke, but not an actual podcast. My mistake since the good cardinal is actually podcasting. This is great news since I so enjoy Cardinal Arinze who is straight shooter. You are always sure what he says and where he stands when he replies to something. So it is pretty cool to have the
Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments podcasting. The only thing that would be cooler would be a Popecast. He could podcast about marriage and call it Pod Casti Cannubii. That would be a great aPODtolate.
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LOL, you always have the best names for things. “Popecast” is one of the funniest things I’ve heard all day.
I know! I’ve been trying to get the word out at least through my blog … they are VERY well done and the content is (of course) top notch.
I give my final views on Deus Caritas Est on my weblog this morning.
Arinze is simply wonderful . . . faithful, learned, easy to understand, unapologetically Christian and Catholic, and obviously in love with the Lord. We need so many more like him.
If the Holy Spirit hadn’t come to rest on Ratzinger, Arinze would have been a most excellent choice.
I generally like Arinze, but if he were Pope the traditional Mass would be dead. his fear of it borders on the irrational.
And the POD sensation is sweeping the Catholic world! Wow! and to think that when I was in the seminary POD was intended as a perjorative acronym (Pious and Overly Devotional)
Tim wrote: “I generally like Arinze, but if he were Pope the traditional Mass would be dead. his fear of it borders on the irrational.”
How can you honestly fail to see that Cardinal Arinze has all the things that make up a conservative. The fact that he is making his statements about the Tridintine Mass should therefore make you think twice about your position which is different from Rome’s.
The reason for Cardinal Arinze’s moderate remarks about the old Mass are the fruit of his obedience to the Church. Those who oppose the Vatican lack obedience and are in fact experimenting with protestantism from the other side of the spectrum. No matter how much incense and Latin you use, disobedience will block Gods grace in life.
I am posting the following in response to Rob, who for some reason sent me an email with this. I post it here only because his initial reply was posted above.
Rob,
I am not disobedient to the Church. In fact, my position is EXACTLY that of Rome’s, which allows the tridentine rite via the ecclesia dei indult. I attend a parish belonging to the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest, which is an ecclesia dei order.
Before you jump to conclusions, you may wish to consider that rashly judging your fellow man might also block God’s grace in your life.
Conservatism is a correct stance when the thing being conserved is worthwhile. If what exists is inferior to the alternative, conservatism is a bad idea. Let’s agree to conserve the Faith, not merely to agree with every non-infallible statement made by a person who isn’t even the Vicar of Christ. As I said, I generally like Arinze, but he is wrong, in my opinion, about the merits of the rites of Mass. Feel free to disagree without labeling me a protestant.
Tim
Well Tim,
I generally like you but now I am afraid to follow your non-infallible statements. Come back when you’re the Vicar of Christ. Then we will finally have a Pope that will set the fallible Cardinal Arinze straight 😉
Just kiddin’,
Rob
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