Sunday, April 14, 2024

Whose "Infinite Dignity" Is More Infinite?

The current Pope is sympathetic with "migrants." 

Coming from Russia-allied Belarus, hundreds of "very aggressive" migrants carrying ladders and wielding rocks and tree branches stormed the border of Poland on Wednesday, but were repelled by security forces. Belarus has long been accused of "weaponizing" migrants by encouraging them to travel to Belarus only so they can be pushed into Poland and Lithuania. ...

Oh.

Is that the "migration" that Franny1 approves?  Does that showcase the "infinite dignity" of the migrants?

How about the "infinite dignity" of the people who are citizens of Poland, Franny?  Or the "infinite dignity" of National Guard troops attacked in Texas?  Or that of US taxpayers?

Which "infinite dignity" counts more?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

More Heresy from Bergolio. He really hates Catholics.

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/04/divine-dignity-alone-is-strictly.html?m=1

…… St. Thomas notes that “the dignity of the divine nature excels every other dignity” (Summa Theologiae I.29.3).

Naturally, God has infinite dignity if anything does.  So, if his dignity excels ours, how could we possibly have infinite dignity? 

Aquinas also observes that the dignity of human nature is increased by virtue of its being united to Christ in the Incarnation (Summa Theologiae III.2.2).

How, then, could it already be infinite by nature? Indeed, Aquinas explicitly denies that human dignity is infinite, noting that “no mere man has the infinite dignity required to satisfy justly an offence against God,” which is why Christ’s Incarnation and Passion were necessary (De Rationibis Fidei, Chapter 7).

To be sure, Aquinas allows that there is a sense in which some things other than God can have infinite dignity, when he writes:

From the fact that (a) Christ’s human nature is united to God, and that (b) created happiness is the enjoyment of God, and that (c) the Blessed Virgin is the mother of God, it follows that they have a certain infinite dignity that stems from the infinite goodness which is God. (Summa Theologiae I.25.6, Freddoso translation)

But note that the infinite dignity in question here derives from a certain intimate relation to God’s infinite dignity – involving the Incarnation, the beatific vision, and Mary’s divine motherhood, respectively – and not from human nature as such…

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