tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post6300073806944824154..comments2023-10-23T14:02:52.339-06:00Comments on Dominican Idaho: Forfeiting the right to enforceMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-23665573264255933122008-01-23T20:46:00.000-07:002008-01-23T20:46:00.000-07:00Effortlessly do you bind us, Mark, hand and foot, ...Effortlessly do you bind us, Mark, hand and foot, in the inescapeable web of your logic. Ouch!Fr John Speekmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05608397414319202513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-30554805867353854782008-01-23T12:53:00.000-07:002008-01-23T12:53:00.000-07:00You did a fine job in your analysis. Estoppel is a...You did a fine job in your analysis. <BR/><BR/>Estoppel is a concept that arises when a party is forbidden by the court [or, as in this case, by act of reason] to speak against his own act, deed, or position. <BR/><BR/>Therefore, in this case, as perverted as it is, where those folks who have adapted their lives and personal philosophy with the "spirit of post Vatican II" [SPVII], and who want to claim for themselves individual sovereignty over their own conscience with regard to the Truth, with regard to the rights and responsibilities of the Church or other authorities as set down by God. And, in contra thereto, the SPVII will assert against others, their political and social positions grounded on a political and social ideology rather than the Truth, thereby not suffering any patience or indulgence for those who may disagree. <BR/><BR/>Therefore, in legal terms, the SVII crowd would be “estopped” from asserting any claim or right over the consciences of individual Catholics [or over the magisterium of the Church]; when asserting such a claim based upon the rules of their personal conscience, Catholic social justice teaching, or some other inventive interpretation of the Truth. <BR/><BR/>In other words, they cannot assert against someone else a position that they themselves reject.<BR/><BR/>I say, above, the "spirit of post Vatican II" because it was a spirit of the age, in the late 60s and 70s which was an age of social rebellion.John Keenan, OPLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07514688769709402691noreply@blogger.com