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?

2 comments:

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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Anonymous said...

John 10:1-10

[1] Amen, amen I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. [2] But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [3] To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. [4] And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. [5] But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

[6] This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke to them. [7] Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. [8] All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. [9] I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures. [10] The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.
[John 10:1-10]