tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post1404858475266528030..comments2024-03-24T05:54:23.612-05:00Comments on Weedon's Blog: A Tale of Two EnglishmenWilliam Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-91474781041743878662007-11-01T21:33:00.000-05:002007-11-01T21:33:00.000-05:00Re Cardinal Manning, he as Newman was a convert fr...Re Cardinal Manning, he as Newman was a convert from Anglicanism.<BR/><BR/>His like will not be found to-day. Unlike Newman, he was all for the promulgation of papal infallibility, but/and also unlike Newman, he was a great voice for the modern (and I don't mean post-conciliar) social doctrine of the RCC culminating in Leo XIII's Rerum novarum (1891) which though co-opted by left and right alike "baptises" neither capitalism nor socialism.<BR/><BR/>It's said a picture of his wife (yes wife, he was a widower) was on him at his death.<BR/><BR/>Also unlike Newman.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-73422934537491214362007-10-31T22:34:00.000-05:002007-10-31T22:34:00.000-05:00I add again my favourite quote from Aquinas: The ...I add again my favourite quote from Aquinas: The sole way to overcome an adversary of divine truth is from the authority of Scripture (contra gentiles, book one, chapter nine) and adds that arguments can be made for divine truth but these should be only for the help they may be to those who already believe, lest unbelievers think we believe on such flimsy arguments!Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com