The main person asking about the imprimatuir was Augustine22, followed by lumengentlemen (JM). Augustine22’s main purpose was to attack Sungenis. I was here on CA when his very first post showed up, and it was to attack Sungenis. Lumengentlemen was doing the same thing.
Maybe you’re right. I don’t know. But you started it off by doing just the opposite with more commercials for his bible studies there and on another thread. That’s why I said something in the first place. You had some really negative things to say about Hahn and Barber acting like Protestants and then you pushed Dr. Sungenis’ book instead. That really bothers me considering that Dr. Sungenis book was turned down for an imprimatur and you knew it. It looks to me like you use the bishop’s imprimatur like a commercial when it helps Dr. Sungenis with his books and then you treat the bishops like they’re dirt when they say something negative about him and that your opinion of his books matters more than theirs.
The fact it was turned down for an imprimatur is really no ones business. Books are turned down for imprimaturs all the time, and just end up getting published without one. Sungenis’ bishop was quite clear that his book does not require one.
Don’t you think when you tell everyone you’re going to have an imprimatur in your ads then you’re making it everyone’s business? I mean, come on. The ad saying all of his bible studies will have an imprimatur is still there. And that’s true about the Matthew edition too.
“And, of course, they contain the Catholic Church’s Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, just as the CASB will contain. There is no Bible like the CASB on the market, Catholic or Protestant. No one has ever updated the Douay-Rheims Bible; no one has ever made an “Apologetics Bible” with extensive explanation on key controversial verses; no one has ever gone into the original languages as thoroughly as the CASB does; no Bible contains the extensive amount of scriptural cross-references; few bibles on the market today remain faithful to word-for-word translation; no Bible gives such extensive citations of the Early Fathers, Councils, Popes and Catechism as the CASB; most Catholic Bibles do not have a concordance, but the CASB does.”
catholicintl.com/donations/casb.htm
How do you make a promise like that before you even know what the bishop said? I don’t see other people doing that.
If he asked for the imprimatur in private and didn’t advertise it then to me that would be different. And when you were asked questions about whether it was turned down or heard from the bishop one way or the other you made it sound like everything was fine and it wasn’t. Everyone is reading your answers even if they are to someone you think it just attacking Dr. Sungenis.
Then there is still the problem about his translation for the Matthew edition. I don’t see anything saying that Dr. Sungenis can go ahead and publish it as is. It says they won’t give him an imprimatur because its not a true translation and because he used dynamic equivalence when he made it. And the letter said he could appeal the decision to get an imprimatur like he did for his Apocalypse edition. Did he?
I’m sorry if you feel let down. That was not my intention.
Look, I appreciate that and I’m not trying to be unfair. Like I said, maybe you were trying to protect your friend. But what I’m hearing doesn’t fly.
And Crumpy, if the Pope had his book turned down for an imprimatur or couldn’t get his translation approved that would be pretty important news.
But I agree this is getting old. I feel like I’m on a merry-go-round and its time to get off.
I was starting to wonder if I was losing it!