ONLY A PRIEST MY AGE AND/OR OLDER WOULD WRITE SUCH RUBBISH!

From that wonderful national chismatic reporter (NCR)

Make the Catholic Church great again? There's no going back

Jan 9, 2019

by Daniel P. Horan

 

Opinion

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Can you pick out the one word in this paragraph which dates it’s author as an aging dinosaur 🦖 approximately my age but more than likely much older?

A lot of attention has been paid to those who have opted out of Catholicism entirely. Such is the case with Melinda Henneberger as expressed in her USA Today column and her essay in this publication. I understand this decision and the feelings that precipitate such a serious choice. I, too, have had my own struggles with how to square my faith in the God of Jesus Christ and the church with the darkest and most-disturbing criminality of some of its leaders. Being a member of a religious order and an ordained presbyter doesn't make me immune from doubt, anger and frustration. But I have not, at least for now, followed Henneberger's path.

Then there is this worn out 1970’s meme here. How would you respond:

For instance, in a church that is two-millennia old, a liturgical form that has existed since the 16th century is hardly the most "traditional." It's practically a fad. Ironically, it was the bishops and their periti at Vatican II that went back to the earliest Christian sources and examined the historical development of rites and rituals through the centuries in order to offer the best footing for what we might rightly call the most "traditional" approach to liturgy. It is traditional in that it better reflects the Christian tradition.

I think there is plenty of room in the church for those who wish to worship in diverse ways. But the "smells and bells" of a Latin liturgy in an ornate cathedral are no more beautiful or profound than the simple house liturgy of the first century communities or the massive liturgies on a beach during World Youth Days.

And then this is the meme of Catholic clergy still in denial about the gay self-referential and protecting cabal in the ranks of the clergy on all levels and a goodly number of laity:

While not an overwhelming number, there is a small but vocal group of Catholics who have taken the latest revelations as an opportunity to suggest the source of the crises in the church are the theological and liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. This sort of conjecture is as incredible as those who claim gay clergy are the problem(a preposterous assertion that has been incontrovertibly disproven by scientific research).

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT WHEN PRIESTS RELY UPON THE INFALLIBLE AND I MEAN INFALLIBLE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WHICH THEY CLAIM TO HAVE READ OR CLAIM COMPETENCE TO INTERPRET?

If you dare risk your blood pressure read the rest there, here!