tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post4686644003955834737..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Papal Profile: Pope Gregory XVIMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-71210243593211135112018-05-26T22:08:45.611-05:002018-05-26T22:08:45.611-05:00He likely would have foreseen their usefulness as ...He likely would have foreseen their usefulness as tools of faith, I think. Popes tend to be rather prophetic in that way😏. Even the syllabus of errors issued by bl. Pius ix is startallingly telling of today's reletavism, atheism and indifferentism. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689082081505894571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-7954487318146171742017-02-16T07:38:17.061-06:002017-02-16T07:38:17.061-06:00I wonder what His Holiness of Happy Memory, Pope G...I wonder what His Holiness of Happy Memory, Pope Gregory XVI, would make of I Phones, I Pads, Smartphones, the internet and other technological innovation of recent times? Surprisingly, he may have approved of them if they helped to win souls for Christ and his Church. He probably would have the foresight to see them as tools of Catholic proselytism. Who knows? Any comments out there?<br />John Dillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335012181713084296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-23718744462962929002015-09-15T11:53:06.968-05:002015-09-15T11:53:06.968-05:00i love the details in this. Continue the good work...i love the details in this. Continue the good workAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12318398872500113177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-82759259513392353732010-03-13T02:02:27.809-06:002010-03-13T02:02:27.809-06:00Gregory XVI was disliked the advance of "prog...Gregory XVI was disliked the advance of "progress" and feared that railroads would be the first step to the emergence of a class of idle rich who tend to spawn revolutions. Tsar Alexander III thought the rails would make the minds of the peasants wander and encourage discontent. Of course, they both ended up getting them anyway.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-27006256283347140732010-03-12T21:16:07.443-06:002010-03-12T21:16:07.443-06:00Ah, I misread that (I thought that you were speaki...Ah, I misread that (I thought that you were speaking of a contemporary Tsar, not a Tsar who simply agreed with him).Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-76228126559256041842010-03-12T12:19:37.011-06:002010-03-12T12:19:37.011-06:00I did mean Alexander III, he didn't have to be...I did mean Alexander III, he didn't have to be alive at the same time as Gregory to share his dislike of railroads. <br /><br />As for the Irish, I don't know of any official papal statements dealing with Ireland, such things were rather rare and his position on the Polish situation caused enough of a firestorm. However, what he soundly condemned was widespread at the time which was Catholics attaching themselves to liberalism as a way to gain independence from some foreign power and that he certainly condemned and I think I will post some direct quotes from the pontiff on that score.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-41726286774990017262010-03-12T04:38:51.371-06:002010-03-12T04:38:51.371-06:00I think you would mean Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. ...I think you would mean Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Alexander III ruled from 1881 to 1894, which is obviously a few decades too late (Nicholas I ruled from 1825 until 1855, which would make him the correct Tsar).<br /><br />Do you know of any of his letters to the Irish? I'd like to have a few on hand if ever I get the opportunity to slap Paul Keating on the issue of the republic (he claims his Catholicism as an excuse for withholding his allegiance. Pretty poor, if you ask me).Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.com