The Catholic Monitor

One of the great pleasures and honors of publishing the Catholic Monitor is the interaction in the comment section with good and intelligent Catholics who know philosophy and theology.  Below is a sample of a discussion we had on: Was Pope John Paul II a Thomist or a Kantian Phenomenologist?   This discussion is from the comment section of the September 23 post " John Paul II, Taylor Marshall & Francis' Apparently Pure Kantian/Modernist 'Catholic... Freemasonic Naturalism'": MEwbank said…  While John Paul ii was, in fact, a very intelligent man, I think his fundamental flaw lay principally in his presumption that his personality and charm could nullify all ill-will and erroneous presumptions in others. However, it is not correct that Gilson's understanding of St. Thomas' acknowledgement of the 'act of being' as the 'act of all acts, the perfection of all perfections' [St. Thomas' own words!] implies that Gilson was an ...

    "Idaho Police Arrest 3 at Outdoor Church Worship" - [https://www.breitbart.com/] Apparently, a nti-First Amendment court decisions that allow anti-Catholic Mass government draconian restrictions to stay in place are "mocking God" according to Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: " 'One person at a time in this great Cathedral to pray? What an insult. This is a mockery. They are mocking you, and even worse, they are mocking God ,' Cordileone said." "Three separate Eucharistic processions Sept. 20 began at St. Anthony, St. Patrick, and Star of the Sea parishes, and converged at United Nations Plaza near San Francisco City Hall before proceeding to the cathedral." "The archdiocese ordered banners for parishioners to carry during the processions; 100 in English, 15 in Spanish, and 5 in Chinese that read: ' We Are Essential: Free the Mass! '” [ https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/09/20/archbishop-cordileone-san-franc...

Breitbart reported "Idaho Police Arrest 3 at Outdoor Church Worship": "Officers arrested Gabriel Rench, Rachel Bohnet, and Sean Bohnet, according to Moscow Report , a local independent news outlet. A video uploaded to social media shows Bohnet, a local music teacher, and his wife telling officers they refused to comply with an inaudible order. Moscow Report says the apparent infraction is that they refused to show identification." "Footage of the couple’s arrest shows the church body singing the hymn “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” as officers place them in handcuffs." [https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/09/24/idaho-police-arrest-3-at-outdoor-church-worship-event-in-defiance-of-mask-mandate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29] Will an Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court allow "arresting people for attending church"? Lawyer Robert Barnes who deals in civil, ...

Lawyer Robert Barnes who deals in civil, criminal and constitutional law reports that "Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Thomas... refutes and directly disagrees w/ the #Barrett pro-lockdown decision": Robert Barnes @Barnes_Law 28m Read the excellent opinion by Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Thomas, that refutes and directly disagrees w/ the #Barrett pro-lockdown decision: "it is a mistake to take language in Jacobson as the last word on what the Constitution allows." https:// supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf [https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law] However, it appears that Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts are in agreement on the "pro-lockdown decision ." Is Barrett another Roberts? Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Mass and the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

 "[T]he [Kantian/Modernist] Blondelian schema holds that justification for the faith is to be found by turning inwards to the personal experience of the human subject. This turn to the subject is characteristic of modern philosophy, from Descartes right up to the Idealism of Kant and Hegel and beyond, and presented a major challenge to the traditional Catholic apologetics... If it were the case that inner experience justified the faith, if each person was to find the proof of God’s existence within their own life, then what would be the basis for the teaching authority of the Church?" - Liberal AnthonyCarroll  [ https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090724_1.htm ] Scholar Douglas Flippen in the philosophical article " Was John Paul II a Thomist or a [Kantian] Phenomenologist?" gives an intellectual history of  Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). He shows how Kantian philosophy mostly in the form of the Kantian philosopher Max Scheler's phenomenology ...

Lawyer Robert Barnes who deals in civil, criminal and constitutional law exclaimed on Twitter via a retweet of OcrazioCornPop that Amy Coney Barrett is "your gal" if " you're for lockdowns" and are " an authoritarian":   Despacita Latina O'Crazio CornPop liked Robert Barnes @Barnes_Law · 2h If you're for lockdowns, #Barrett 's your gal.  If you're for forced vaccines, #Barrett 's your gal.  If you're for cops bashing in your door in the presence of your minor child w/o any probable cause of a crime, #Barrett 's your gal.  If you're an authoritarian, #Barret 's your gal. [https://twitter.com/OcrazioCornPop] Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Mass and the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  

Today, premiere lawyer Robert Barnes who deals in civil, criminal and constitutional law reported on Twitter that Attorney General William Barr "strongly disagreed" with Amy Coney Barrett's " lockdown orders [ruling which are] the worst violation of civil rights in American history since slavery. "  The Barrett lockdown ruling apparently may be anti-U. S. Constitution according to Barnes: "A reminder: Attorney General Barr strongly disagreed w/ #Barrett , calling the lockdown orders the worst violation of civil rights in American history since slavery." " One of the lies being spread to support #Barrett is that her lockdown opinion didn't say anything about the US Constitution. The #Barrett pro-lockdown ruling made very clear it 'took off the table' ANY challenge to ANY lockdown order based on ANY claim of 'protection of liberty.'" [ Robert Barnes on Twitter: "A reminder: Attorney General Barr strongly disagre...