Fr. Richard McBrien

[the_rev]

Our local Diocsean newspaper features weekly articles by this priest who is a professor at Notre Dame. He has been hired as a consultant now for the Davinci Code Movie. I was just wonder if I was to write the editor what shoudl I include. I know he doesn't have a good rep, so what else should i mention?

[thessalonian]

Fr. McBrien is bad news. All the secular press goes to him when they want a liberal view from a priest.

This article summs up what should be done about his articles nicely.
[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=954"]http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=954[/url]

[ofpheritup]

[quote name='thessalonian' date='Aug 29 2005, 10:11 AM']Fr. McBrien  is bad news.  All the secular press goes to him when they want a liberal view from a priest.

This article summs up what should be done about his articles nicely.
[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=954"]http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=954[/url]
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I didn't know anything about him. BUT when I saw him on TV I thought why would a priest get himself involved in something like that?
NOW I KNOW. THANKS.

[cmotherofpirl]

When the press or politican want to parade a "catholic" to agree with just about anything - he's their man.
Only prayers and fasting will work on him.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Aug 29 2005, 10:53 AM']When the press or politican want to parade a "catholic" to agree with just about anything  - he's their man.
Only prayers and fasting will work on him.
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The faithful should write letters to those dioceses who air his views to have them pulled. He must be silenced. That said, I agree that much prayer and fasting is neccessary .

[the_rev]

Letter being sent need to buy a stamp

[Theologian in Training]

I believe he was silenced by the Vatican for a time, but cannot verify that at the moment.

You might run a search for him and see what comes up.

God Bless

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Awful. Just awful. His book "Catholicism" has been repeatedly condemned by the USCCB. May want to include that.

There are few people (even among dissenters) that get on my nerves like Fr. Richard P. McBrien.

[Nathan]

I looked for Fr. McBrien's book [i]Catholicism[/i] for a long time -- but by the time I had finally stumbled across a copy, I had heard enough about his heterodoxy that I was no longer interested.

Funny that he's been hired for [i]The Da Vinci Code[/i]. He probably believes in it.

[phatcatholic]

a few articles on CNN's favorite theologian:

[b]--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6584"]Richard McBrien's Theological Influence on Thomas Groome[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6583"]The Methodology of Ambiguity: Richard McBrien's Revised Catholicism[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=541"]Review of Fr. McBrien's [i]Catholicism[/i][/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=954"]Theology According to Richard McBrien[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5286"]Review of Fr. McBrien's "Catholicism" by the NCCB's Committee on Doctrine[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2669"]Notre Dame Theologian Counsels Theologians to Ignore Mandate[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=648"]The Trouble with [i]Catholicism[/i][/url][/b]

where's the vomit smilie when you need it..........

Edited August 29, 2005 by phatcatholic

[azaelia]

Our Diocesan newspaper featured his column Gag me with heresy.

[cmotherofpirl]

that could be an interesting letter campaign - hes in about 20 different papers?//???

[phatcatholic]

yea, he's like the darling of the mass media

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

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Noel's angel does he have good eyebrows?

[MilesChristi]

lol...that's the first time I've ever seen him with a collar on.

[Myles Domini]

I'm going to make a noise of a certain animal. Guess from it what I'm suggesting?

"moo, moo, grunt, grunt"

[the_rev]

Here is my letter,

Recently on the World Over Live featured on EWTN, Dr. William Donohue of the Catholic League was featured as the guest. It was brought to my attention from a question of a viewer about Fr. Richard McBrien, stating that he was hired as a consultant for the anti-Catholic movie, The Davinci Code. It seems whenever a media outlet or a politician needs a priest so they can parade around Catholicism, Fr. McBrien is always there. He's a dissenter and known not to agree with everything that our late Holy Father, Pope John Paul the Second taught, and I'm sure he won't be agreeing with Pope Benedict in the near future. CatholicCulture.com states “In 1981, the first edition of McBrien's book Catholicismwas published. Almost immediately the doctrinal committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops pointed out serious problems with it and asked him to make revisions. When those revisions had not been made by the time of the third edition, the conference finally released a statement indicating that the work was not a reliable guide to Catholic teaching and should not be used in theological instruction.” My question now after researching this priest, is why in the world does The Compass feature such writings of a dissenting priest?

[picchick]

Is the Da Vinci Code bad if taken as fiction?

Our Pastor said that reading the book is not bad but do not take it as the teaching of the Church. It is fictional and should be read as that.

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

i saw that world over live this morning it was good. it was real good.

[the_rev]

[quote name='picchick' date='Aug 29 2005, 08:28 PM']Is the Da Vinci Code bad if taken as fiction?

Our Pastor said that reading the book is not bad but do not take it as the teaching of the Church.  It is fictional and should be read as that.
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The problem however is that the co-producer of the movie said that it was anti-catholic. Refreence: New York Times

However they have said they are not going to put a disclaimer saying it's fiction, so in the Catholic League, the goal is to harm at them until they do put it in, they we'd all be hapy.