Sorry about the lack of blogging lately. I’ve been run off my feet.
I received this advance copy of a flyer of a book to be published by Concordia Publishing House. The author is a Catholic, Dr Franz Posset. It should be interesting.
Sorry about the lack of blogging lately. I’ve been run off my feet.
I received this advance copy of a flyer of a book to be published by Concordia Publishing House. The author is a Catholic, Dr Franz Posset. It should be interesting.
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Sentire Cum Ecclesia began years ago back when blogs were the latest thing. They are a bit passe now, and I spend most of my time on twitter (@scecclesia) but from time to time, I do add new things on this ‘ere website. Mostly I use it as a place for journaling about my Pilgrimage experiences.
The motto of the blog is:
“Maior autem his est spes”
I propose that
1) We replace the absentee monarch of Australia (who is also the Monarch of Great Britain) with an elected Australian monarchy.
2) The elected monarch exactly replaces the current monarch in the current constition.
3) The elected monarch has exactly the same powers, duties and responsibilities as those of the current absentee monarch. All the monarch's functions are carried out by his/her personal representatives (as is currently the case): federally by the Governor General, and in the states by the State Governors.
4) The Governor General and the Governors continue to be selected and appointed as they currently are, that is, by the premier with the approval of the monarch.
5) The monarch is elected to sovereignty over Australia for life, but his/her sovereignty is strictly non-hereditary.
6) The elective body is the "college of electors" comprised of the state governors and federal governor general.
7) The election of the monarch must be a unanimous decision on the part of the college of electors.
"The fervant Romanists have always this point in their favour: that they are ready to believe. And they have a desire for the conversion of men which is honest in exactly inverse ration to the dishonesty of the means which they employ to produce it."
-- Anthony Trollope, "The Way We Live Now"
"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
-- Terry Pratchet, Hogfather, page 242
"I really don't think I'm arrogant, but I do get impatient with people who don't share with me the same humility in front of the facts."
--Richard Dawkins
been missing your blog entries. Too bad you didn’t make it to Margaret Somerville’s talk on euthanasia it was excellent and worth a blog entry
I was at the four day live in conference of the Jewish Muslim Christian Association of Australia, an organisation of which I am the secretary. I would have liked to have been at the talk. Was it well attended? Is it to be placed on the internet somewhere?
Hi David
She spoke to a packed house. I do not know whether it has been placed on the internet but it was written up for the Melbourne Archdiocese website
I am currently reading through TABLE TALK by HERR DOKTOR MARTIN LUTHER,as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Compendium,in preparation for entry into the Church.
I read somewhere that if Cardinal Pole-the actual one- was elected pope,that due to his reformist nature and views,then Luther would have had a ready ear to hear his complaint
Mmm. I’ve read that too. Hard to tell, given that he ended up, after all, Queen Mary’s Archbishop of Canterbury. Although he was certainly very different to Paul Caraffa (Paul IV). Together with Cardinal Contarini, they were all members of the “spirituali” movement.
Well, at the sole time that Cardinal Pole appears to have been considered papabile – namely, after the death of Pope Paul III in 1549 – Luther was already dead. The old Catholic Encyclopedia states that the Cardinal had prospects at one point of getting elected with a two-thirds majority, but in fact nothing came of it, the majority crumbled away, and he didn’t even exert himself to gain the papal throne:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12201b.htm
Yes, you are right. Luther died in 1546.
Probably modest ,giveb that he did not want to be ArchBishop of Canterbury for randy old henry