AlexScrivener
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AlexScrivener
3mo ago
First Things article about secular monks
Maybe this one? https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/secular-monks
AlexScrivener
10mo ago
Francis’s progressive allies in the committee which chooses new bishops would rather leave an oddly large number of dioceses vacant than appoint them.
Not saying this is definitely wrong, but also a third of priests asked to become bishops refuse:
As Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the bishops’ dicastery from 2010 to 2023, said last year: “Since the beginning of my mandate, I have seen the number of priests who do not accept the episcopal appointment increase from 1 in 10 to about 3 in 10 in 12 years.”
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-catholic-churchs-bishop-elect
The whole article and the phrase which inspired it seem like desperate groping in the intellectual dark for the concept of The Principle Of Double Effect, and an illuminating example of the problems which arise when it is lacking.
The inability to distinguish between intended and unintended effects, and forseen and unforseen consequences, is lethal to a moral evaluation of human action.
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