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Sean David Varga I's avatar

I remember first coming across a positive evaluation of "blind obedience" when reading through Dom Guéranger's Liturgical Year. I realized how liberalised my conception of obedience had been up to that point, and it was a moment where I had to decide to either hold on to my own ideas or conform myself to the mind of the Church. I hope and pray that I've done the latter.

But the esteemed abbot's words fit right alongside those of St. Ignatius and Fr. Rodríguez above.

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Peter Kwasniewski's avatar

I don't think it would change your evaluation or Fr. ZeloZelavi's critique very much, but I would like to note that there is a longer and more developed version of John Lamont's essay in the following anthology, which also contains some of the best R&R argumentation to be found anywhere:

https://osjustipress.com/products/ultramontanism-and-tradition

With contributions by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke • Bishop Athanasius Schneider • Phillip Campbell • Stuart Chessman • Charles A. Coulombe • Roberto de Mattei • Edward Feser • Timothy S. Flanders • Rémi Fontaine • A Friar of the Order of Preachers • Matt Gaspers • Jeremy Holmes • John P. Joy • Robert W. Keim • John Lamont • Sebastian Morello • Martin Mosebach • Clemens Victor Oldendorf • Thomas Pink • Enrico Roccagiachini • Eric Sammons • Joseph Shaw • Henry Sire • Thomas Sternberg • Darrick Taylor • José A. Ureta

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