Thoughts on Michael Lofton (Reason and Theology) and Cardinal Zen. It's an odd situation.

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
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  • @richardbohler8980
    @richardbohler8980 12 дней назад +36

    Dear "Ordinary Catholic", You really should have researched Cardinal Zen before you attacked him. He is a "white martyr" for all the suffering he has endured to protect not only Chinese Catholics from the Chinese Communist Party. He is a global Catholic hero who has devoted himself entirely to the good of the Church, and is held in the greatest esteem.

    • @OrdinaryCatholic1
      @OrdinaryCatholic1  12 дней назад +6

      @@richardbohler8980 I didn't attack anyone, I just think it's odd. We all should.

    • @BronxCat
      @BronxCat 12 дней назад

      Stay out of it, you're a woman. Stay in your place.

    • @OrdinaryCatholic1
      @OrdinaryCatholic1  12 дней назад +3

      ​@@BronxCat I'm actually in a great place... speaking with concern.

    • @jamesottman6559
      @jamesottman6559 12 дней назад +2

      So what? Doesn't mean he can't be prideful or make mistakes.

    • @valwhelan3533
      @valwhelan3533 12 дней назад +1

      @@jamesottman6559 Exactly!

  • @Isphanian
    @Isphanian 10 дней назад +8

    Lofton started critisizing Cardinal Zen. In public.
    It is only natural that he got the reprimand he was looking for in public.

  • @Proclivitytolife
    @Proclivitytolife 12 дней назад +23

    It's not that odd. Lofton, with his typical "charity", talked about Cardinal Zen as though he was an idiot and borderline heretic. Lofton did this publicly, so odd that Cardinal Zen would post this on his blog publicly?
    And the fact that Zen is from Hong Kong is irrelevant. Lofton slandered him and talked nonsense and so Zen did a public service as a pastor of the Church by letting everyone know thay Lofton is a fraud and a grifter and that we shouldn't pay attention to him. Since Zen is doing this as a service to the Church, he obviously needs to make this public.
    Lofton has long been in need of having his ego checked, and Cardinal Zen's modest zingers weren’t out of place. St. Polycarp didmt hesitate to call Marcion a son of hell, and so Zen's language to Lofton is proportionally justifiable.

    • @Johnny-pj2fm
      @Johnny-pj2fm 12 дней назад

      I didn't know reading from actual church documents and other sources is wrong? That all the guy does, it makes people like you get you panties in a bunch is hilarious. At this point you guys are no different then leftist.

    • @gerry30
      @gerry30 11 дней назад

      @@Johnny-pj2fm Lofton "selectively" chooses what he reads. He constructs a narrative that is more for Ecclesial Lawfare than applicable to the reality that is going on.
      I can read selectively and more accurately from Church documents and papal statements and point out that Paul VI said the Church post-Council was in a state of auto-demolition, John Paul II, stated at the end of his pontificate his failures in reigning in dissidents and the Church had fallen into a "silent apostasy." You can find numerous citations of Benedict XVI prior to his papacy describing, "crisis in the Church" "collapse of the liturgy" "some councils were a waste of time" "the Novus Ordo is a banal, on the spot product put together by a committee." All of these are statements of reality that the Popes indicated major problems, the Popes essentially did nothing to curb the problems and other clergy stepped up as has happened in history against papal directives.
      Compare all of that to John XXIII's opening statement for the Council and it's easy to see that Vatican II is an utter failure and it's okay to admit it since the stated goal was presenting the Catholic faith to modern man over half a century ago and not defining anything new. That "Modern Man" of the 1960s is dead and gone for the most part and did not get the faith handed on to him more clearly than before. Consider it a bad idea, implemented badly. Time to move on and resume doing what worked. The ideas of Vatican II belong with the USSR on the ash heap of history.

    • @ghostapostle7225
      @ghostapostle7225 11 дней назад +3

      Agreeing with him or not, Lofton actually gave points of why he thought the Cardinal was wrong. The response was "you're a man with a little beard". I mean, how authistic you need to be to think this is fine?

    • @Proclivitytolife
      @Proclivitytolife 11 дней назад +1

      @@ghostapostle7225 I guess it requires as much "autism" as it does to think that St. Polycarp was justified in calling Marcion a "son of hell".
      I'm not suggesting that Lofton is a "son of hell", but that it isn't out of place for saintly people to use such expressions when warranted, and as I've said, Lofton has been asking for this for quite some time.
      Besides, the "big man with a little beard" is one tiny part of what he said. It was just a little zinger, which I suspect possibly makes more sense in Cantonese, and isn't the main message he was conveying. I do have to wonder about anybody focusing on such a little joke yet avoids the main point he was making - which is that Lofton is arrogant and thrives in an environment of ignorance. It isn't to wonder that Lofton, despite spending dozens of hours monologing on Fiducia Supplicans without anyone to offer pushback, refused to invite anyone with a contrary opinion on his show to dialog, and refused invitations to other people shows to dialog. He doesn't want to debate, he doesn't want to discuss. He refuses dialog and insists on monologue. That speaks very loudly about what's going on with him

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 7 дней назад

      ​@@Proclivitytolifeso what if Lofton is "arrogant" (your word)?
      Is he right?

  • @gerry30
    @gerry30 11 дней назад +3

    I literally was replying to another video on a different topic and I quoted Pope St. Pius X.
    The term "legalized cunning" for the purpose of oppression jumped out on me as the perfect descriptive of Lofton's methodology.
    From St. Pius X:
    "We ask Ourselves, Venerable Brethren, what has become of the Catholicism of the Sillon? Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer."--- Our Apostolic Mandate.

    • @a.t.c.3862
      @a.t.c.3862 9 дней назад

      Are you taking what Joe Zen is taking?

  • @Safe-and-effective
    @Safe-and-effective 4 дня назад

    In all honesty, if any Cardinal decided to publicly address me, I would be humbled and I would take the opportunity to retreat into meditative silence and re-examine my life and my choices. Lofton has chosen a much different route.

  • @BensWorkshop
    @BensWorkshop 4 дня назад

    I am not convinced attacking the papacy is a particularly traditional Catholic position.

  • @squirrelandowl7482
    @squirrelandowl7482 11 дней назад +3

    We are all in the same Church. And I really wish you would stop slandering "far right" Catholics. That you describe them as abusing something speaks to your judgemental state of mind.

    • @OrdinaryCatholic1
      @OrdinaryCatholic1  11 дней назад +1

      @@squirrelandowl7482 but you guys are, when you self identify as something different like referring to yourselves as "traditional" Catholics.

    • @True2282
      @True2282 9 дней назад

      @@OrdinaryCatholic1 ​​⁠ Humility, Charity, Prudence and Discernment are virtues we all should aspire to achieve!
      Litany of Humility always bring joy and peace!

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      ​@@OrdinaryCatholic1Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

  • @matthewschmidt5069
    @matthewschmidt5069 12 дней назад +2

    Why would you do if the Holy Father was attacked? Think about it and do better.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 7 дней назад

      We have a papal champion in Michael Lofton.

  • @vidkid52
    @vidkid52 12 дней назад +2

    VERY odd!!

  • @rubensoto6089
    @rubensoto6089 5 дней назад

    From RUclips Catholics, deliver me Jesus.

  • @angelamalek
    @angelamalek 9 дней назад +3

    Either the Magisterium is supernaturally protected against error, or it’s not. If it is, we need to conform to it and not second guess every document coming out of Rome. Zen made inaccurate claims about FS that a cursory read through disprove.

  • @BobbyChastain
    @BobbyChastain 12 дней назад +3

    Is this a channel that is dedicated to educating Catholics on the True Magisterium of Holy Catholic Church?

    • @chrisrobinson976
      @chrisrobinson976 11 дней назад +2

      No!

    • @marystanley7373
      @marystanley7373 10 дней назад

      Nothing but a pschobabnle from somebody that is in desperate need of a hobby. You'll learn absolutely nothing here and she's a NO fraud.

    • @sleepinglioness5754
      @sleepinglioness5754 9 дней назад +4

      No! It's an uneducated, opinion channel.

  • @stephenmcguire7342
    @stephenmcguire7342 12 дней назад +4

    What seems odd is that you would engage in this kind of gossip from a cemetery. Please pray and think about it.

    • @OrdinaryCatholic1
      @OrdinaryCatholic1  12 дней назад

      @@stephenmcguire7342 It's my own grave, I've had since I was 13. My parents purchased 8 double plots (16 total). It's like my chapel, I like to reflect there. Yeah, it's a bit weird, but it keeps me "grounded". And no I'm not gossiping.

    • @marystanley7373
      @marystanley7373 10 дней назад

      Amen, she's whacked.

    • @stephenmcguire7342
      @stephenmcguire7342 9 дней назад +1

      @OrdinaryCatholic1 The Catholic understanding of a cemetery is that it is sacred ground. A place to pray for the souls of the dead, recommending them to God's mercy that all may join the army of the faithful departed. It is not a place we should be visiting for our own sentimental comfort or to indulge in gossip. Which you did. Gossip is determined by God's criteria, not ours. I can not encourage you more on the need for humble prayer on the matter. Please, for the love of God and at the exclusion of self consider doing so.

    • @OrdinaryCatholic1
      @OrdinaryCatholic1  9 дней назад

      @@stephenmcguire7342 I can examine my own conscience, I definitely wasn't gossiping. I make that clear in my video . Like I said, it's my own grave... It's not like I'm sitting on someone else's. I know lots of people in this cemetery, it's not a random place.

    • @stephenmcguire7342
      @stephenmcguire7342 9 дней назад +1

      @OrdinaryCatholic1 You may have heard what I said, but you literally didn't understand a word of it. May I suggest you purchase a good small catechism, like that written by Pope St. Pius X, and prayfully study what gossip is. God bless, you are in my prayers.

  • @soldierofmary984
    @soldierofmary984 12 дней назад +6

    A Cardinal mocking somoneones appearance is odd.

    • @TheLonestarofTexas
      @TheLonestarofTexas 11 дней назад +5

      I mean not really.

    • @jaqian
      @jaqian 11 дней назад +1

      Yeah weird comment about the tattoo

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

  • @enderoctanus
    @enderoctanus 12 дней назад +12

    It is certainly very interesting that Cardinal Zen says that Michael Lofton is, essentially, a moron. He failed to demonstrate a single error, but did insult Michael's appearance. Anyone who has an ounce of honest sense and is being objective looks at that and immediately knows who has an argument and who does not. What Michael Lofton says is also not his own conjecture or his own views, they are views of respected theologians, whom Cardinal Zen did not refute. If the argument is valid, and the premises are true, then you have to accept that the conclusion is also true. If you wish to say that the conclusion is NOT TRUE, then you MUST show that the argument is either not valid (logically), or that there are problems with the premises. This is Introduction to Logic level stuff. Cardinal Zen failed to do this. He resorted to an ad hominem, a logical fallacy, instead.
    The trads need to reign this in. It's a bad position to hold. It's a losing one. You're turning the ire of God's Church against you. Let go of your pride and ego.

    • @soldierofmary984
      @soldierofmary984 12 дней назад +2

      They refute by slandering and mocking a person.

    • @valwhelan3533
      @valwhelan3533 12 дней назад +3

      I notice the ML is a moron theme where no one specifically refutes what he is saying. Calling someone names like popesplainer is not a rational argument.

    • @TheLonestarofTexas
      @TheLonestarofTexas 11 дней назад +2

      Probably because whenever people who know what they’re talking about do refute and step-by-step go through the errors of Lofton, he blocks them, see Scholastic Answers as an example.

    • @a.t.c.3862
      @a.t.c.3862 9 дней назад

      ​@adjesumpermariam6515
      'The Church and the Pope are wrong, and we the tradestants are right', is a very dangerous premise indeed on which to build your faith - and it is certainly not, in any way, Catholic. Your salvation is at risk.

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

  • @odonnell1218
    @odonnell1218 12 дней назад +1

    I am appalled to see a Cardinal sinking to such a low level. He resorted to childish insults and ad hominems and did nothing to address the substance of Michael’s arguments. It reminds me of a quote attributed to Socrates: “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

    • @TheLonestarofTexas
      @TheLonestarofTexas 11 дней назад

      🤡

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

  • @valwhelan3533
    @valwhelan3533 12 дней назад +5

    yes it does seem very sketchy and beneath a cardinal to engage in that way even if you don't like ML.

    • @mikazoftstrom2343
      @mikazoftstrom2343 12 дней назад +3

      Unless he feels that what ML is teaching is dangerous.

    • @matthewschmidt5069
      @matthewschmidt5069 12 дней назад +4

      ​@mikazoftstrom2343 which he's not lol.

    • @mikazoftstrom2343
      @mikazoftstrom2343 12 дней назад +2

      @@matthewschmidt5069 maybe the cardinal doesn’t think so.

    • @matthewschmidt5069
      @matthewschmidt5069 12 дней назад +4

      @@mikazoftstrom2343 The Cardinal has been shown to be wrong, for instance on Fiducia

    • @enderoctanus
      @enderoctanus 12 дней назад +3

      @@mikazoftstrom2343 If what ML is teaching is dangerous, he should be able to point out the dangers rather than resort to insults over appearance. Cdl. Zen could not do the former, but did do the latter.

  • @antoniopioavallone1137
    @antoniopioavallone1137 12 дней назад +2

    Whatever were cardinal zen's reasons he is wrong

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

  • @soldierofmary984
    @soldierofmary984 12 дней назад +7

    Michael Lofton is doing great work for the Catholic Church.

    • @concernedcitizen780
      @concernedcitizen780 12 дней назад +3

      ????

    • @marystanley7373
      @marystanley7373 10 дней назад

      You're as delusional as the owner of this Chanel. She needs serious mental help.

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 8 дней назад

      Asian culture uses shaming as a form of instruction. People who are wrong about something as serious as homosexual relations that can result in eternity in hell should be ashamed.
      If you were seriously concerned about souls, then like Cardinal Zen, you would point out the rubber stamp contradiction that the CDF said, "No" the Church may NOT bless same-sex couples, whereas, Cardinal Tucho's heretical Fiducia Supplicans says "Yes" on "the blessing of same-sex couples". BE HONEST! Michael DISHONESTLY claims to stick to the arguments line by line while ignoring the elephant in the room as Cardinal Zen responsibly points out. Looks like you too are in need of a reprimand and should be more concerned with the salvation of souls not gossip & taking sides to the detriment of the Gospel Truth of Jesus Christ.

    • @marystanley7373
      @marystanley7373 8 дней назад +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @MPFXT
      @MPFXT 7 дней назад +2

      @@soldierofmary984 Cardinal Zen has pointed out the contradiction from Fiducia Supplicans and rightfully shames Michael Loftin for ignoring this fact. You cannot deny Fiducia Supplicans "blessing of same sex couples" contradicts the CDF's declaration that the "Church may not bless same sex couples."

  • @scottfritzwallcreations1857
    @scottfritzwallcreations1857 6 дней назад

    I like everything Michael Lofton says. He is one of the smartest Catholics out there. Listen to him.

  • @soldierofmary984
    @soldierofmary984 12 дней назад +16

    Michael Lofton is doing great work for the Catholic Church.

    • @JenniferWilliams-jy7rz
      @JenniferWilliams-jy7rz 12 дней назад +14

      Don't be ridiculous!

    • @Dienekes678
      @Dienekes678 12 дней назад +6

      Well...somebody has to speak up for the smoke of Satan, I guess?

    • @khalidNroses
      @khalidNroses 12 дней назад +1

      @@Dienekes678maybe you ? 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @Dienekes678
      @Dienekes678 11 дней назад

      @@khalidNroses do you believe that smoke of Satan has entered the church?

    • @rayvanee277
      @rayvanee277 11 дней назад +8

      Nope, he really isn't