tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post6685696557788380602..comments2023-10-06T14:01:45.973+01:00Comments on Dougalthink: Religious stuff - as per usual!fr dougalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-48404111424278592572010-09-22T12:09:33.758+01:002010-09-22T12:09:33.758+01:00No surprises re the employee's current status!...No surprises re the employee's current status!fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-27472749707018869102010-09-22T07:55:42.669+01:002010-09-22T07:55:42.669+01:00Sorry to hear about the chinese porn. I had an emp...Sorry to hear about the chinese porn. I had an employee who started using one of the office computers to buy 'sex aid' medication on line . It caused chaos. We had hundreds of porn emails. Employee no longer with us.Father Andrew Crosbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-34053436779446539872010-09-20T18:00:16.154+01:002010-09-20T18:00:16.154+01:00Well, I am going to apologise for being snarky abo...Well, I am going to apologise for being snarky about the typos in ignorance of your dyslexia. That was not fair or courteous.<br /><br />"Modern heresy"? Doesn't exist really - I once found a particular form of Gnosticism that described Dick Holloway perfectly! Sadly I can't find my Dictionary of Heresies (which I bought in Foyle's in London) at the moment! Obviously I think we have bishops and women can be ordained, so we'll just have to agree to differe on that one!<br /><br /> Err, well I was crucifer at the present Dean of Aberdeen's institution in the Gallowgate, but his liturgical style can best be described in the words of the aforementioned ex-Primus: "redemptive vulgarity"!<br /><br />I agree totally on the gay issue. Although sometimes others use it as a barrier to our exercise of priestly ministry. UJust sayin'!<br /><br />I will keep it open but will also keep the moderation on. I was evidently being plagued by links to Chinese porn sites (well, that's what my chums in Sig Int told me) and a like to keep it clean-ish!fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-78391731536270113972010-09-18T17:08:33.325+01:002010-09-18T17:08:33.325+01:00frdougal,
No need for an apology about the typos ...frdougal,<br /><br />No need for an apology about the typos etc. This is a much more fun blog than others as you seem prepared to permit comments that disagree with your point of view. Well done. I am dyslexic so any level of input wouldn’t have made much difference.<br /><br />Sorry I do not accept that Anglicans who have revised the faith of the Church in a go it alone basis can claim to be part of the Catholic Church. I am pleased to say that as yet most Anglicans have not indulged in modern heresy. No Bishop no Church. Women cannot be ordained therefore ordain a woman and you destroy the link to the Apostles and therefore the church. Simples.<br /><br />I have seen the kind of Kevin ( alias Pearshape ) invented nonsense that goes on at Tollcross these days. I was brought up there under Canon Brady and Gordon Reid who did know how to do liturgy. Kevin is not entirely to blame as the rot started with the Celtic Kermit who I gather is now inflicting the people of the Gallowgate with his own special brand of Weegie Celticism.<br />I am confused about the gay priest bit invalidating what you say. I really don’t see that being gay diminishes or destroys your priesthood. God made you that way. It is how you use your gifts as a priest that will impact on your priesthood. If being gay becomes the totality of what you are or the majority of what you are and do it will be a problem. It is putting things such as sexuality before our priesthood that create barriers to our using the most wonderful glorious gift that God has given us to bring the body and blood of Our Lord to his people and to enjoin the Sacrifice of God on the Cross. <br />Keep an open website Father. It will be much more fun.Father Crosbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-53169068390937319512010-09-16T23:09:01.273+01:002010-09-16T23:09:01.273+01:00Anon - I saw you agreed on the mural, I just decid...Anon - I saw you agreed on the mural, I just decided to concentrate on the major points. And yes, I got a C on O grade typing. It was also late and I was on my 3rd overnight shift with overtime in a row. Some human errors just happen. As you so correctly observe, I don't watch Countdown, nor can I count especially well (kicked out of Higher Maths. The critical faculty is one I exercise in the full knowledge of being imperfect. As are you. "Dust thou art" etc. And I criticise the Pope as a LGBT ANGLICAN priest. Not being in Communion with the bloke, I am not disloyal, I am expressing a different point of view that dissents from the Papal position on grounds of theological principle. Any way the soon to be Blessed JH Newman disagreed with the Papacy of his day as it went into mad Ultramontane mode, was gay (try David L Edwards' essay in his volume on the leaders of the Victorian Church) and they are making him a saint by stages. Doesn't invalidate his critique does it?fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-85196044559079278082010-09-16T18:53:47.599+01:002010-09-16T18:53:47.599+01:00How can you criticise the pope when you are a gay ...How can you criticise the pope when you are a gay priest?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-73264810673760517332010-09-16T17:47:49.308+01:002010-09-16T17:47:49.308+01:00If you read more closely, I was agreeing with you...If you read more closely, I was agreeing with you on the mural. And it was the stray apostrophe in "Math's" I was objecting to, along with the motes and beams bit of criticising someone else.<br /><br />Maybe your typing is to blame, as you now have your "constanants" all to pot as well! At least you can't be wasting time watching Countdown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-91721210688486314532010-09-15T23:42:19.796+01:002010-09-15T23:42:19.796+01:00Fair-ish points Anon. But this a blog you have to...Fair-ish points Anon. But this a blog you have to choose to look at, not the side of a church on Princes Street you can't avoid. I think of this as a sort of "consenting adults zone", so a Private Eye style is fair enough (they used to refer to a former Archbishop of Canterbury as "Agatha Runciballs" and him with the MC and all that.<br /><br />As to Maths vs Mathematics - we Classicists never felt it worth expending the extra vowels and constanants on something that only scientists would use!<br /><br />Apologies? Aye, well I am an imperfect pedant and will correct my errors. I try to set a standard and don't always succeed. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If he'd like an apology, I will happily offer it.fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-4909007388043887622010-09-15T17:41:27.022+01:002010-09-15T17:41:27.022+01:00Mural looks rubbish to me, but is calling the chap...Mural looks rubbish to me, but is calling the chap "Pope Benny" more respectful do you think?<br />And was it called "Math's" in pedantry school?<br />Fascist you clearly are not, otherwise you would know there are two "t"s in the middle of trattoria.<br /><br />Apology to Father Andrew in order, surely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-83138362772221180812010-09-15T17:16:11.307+01:002010-09-15T17:16:11.307+01:00IMHO I think Catholic Christians DO have women pri...IMHO I think Catholic Christians DO have women priests - they're called Anglicans and as usual we are simply a couple of Conferences ahead of the Vatican (married clergy and liturgy in the vernacular being classic examples)! And we still generally do liturgy better than your friendly local Roman sacramental tratorria! Not as well as we used to admittedly.<br /><br />PS I'm no fascist but I am a pedant: note the spelling of the "f" word, the lack of an apostrophe in St John's, the misplaced "e" in deserted and a few others! Please God I did my grammar at the hands of an NSM of St John's Perth who had a double 1st in Classics from Trinity Cambridge and who drilled Kennedy's Primer into us!fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-65755042319931340292010-09-15T11:37:39.993+01:002010-09-15T11:37:39.993+01:00Well done. The mural mess outside St Johns is a di...Well done. The mural mess outside St Johns is a disgrace. The fact is simple. Catholic Christians dont have women as priests. Benedict cannot do anything about it. The Orthodox wont even discuss it so it isnt going to happen in the Catholic Orthodox world. <br /><br />I love your description of St Johns as Gods Drawingroom. I fear that most of the congregation these days probably live in Bungalows in Corstorphine. The New Town folk have desreted Pisky ways in favour of secularism and other traditions.<br /><br />Piskies did do liturgy better but that is now in the past. <br /><br />I will be interested to see if you leave my comment. Facist Kelvin always deletes my comments because he only runs a Kelvin fan blog.Father Andrew Crosbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-62533121162381748492010-09-13T12:45:22.251+01:002010-09-13T12:45:22.251+01:00Hey, Dougal - if you're really passionate abou...Hey, Dougal - if you're really passionate about something, you don't stop to ponder whether or not you want to protest about it, do you? do you not get out there on the street or wherever and get on with it? Be ye not narked, my son - just consider how it feels to be the "wrong" gender!Christine McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.com