Ocean Kayaker: Waiting for a Hero

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Waiting for a Hero

If one of the above two potential heroes does not take a stand on the release of the so-called torture photos, there will be mayhem around the world (remember the Danish cartoons?). One or both of these men: James Jones, National Security Advisor (formerly Commandant of the Marine Corps), and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has the chance to avert this impending disaster by strongly advising President Obama against the unnecessary (and gratuitous) release of the photos. Both should threaten to resign should the president release the photos, and then do so if he does.

The inestimable Andy McCarthy has written a must-read piece on the photo release on National Review Online today. Here's a link:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzkxYTE3ODI4YjAyOWY2YTUyMmJkOTAxZGZlOWZmMjg=&w=MA==

We need a hero.

Transubstantiation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Waiting for a Hero

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