FATHER THOMAS ROSICA, CARDINAL CUPICH AND POPE FRANCIS, WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY DOES THE CLERICALISM OF THE SANCTUARY OF PRIESTS AND LAITY HAVE TO DO WITH PRIESTS AND BISHOPS RAPING CHILDREN?

Father Thomas Rosica recently wrote perhaps the most sinister form of clericalism of a pope ever, which was:

...the Church is now 'ruled by an individual rather than by... its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture'

Under Pope Francis, the Church is now “openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture,” 

But in today's on-line version of the National Chismatic Reporter (NCR), Fr. Rosica quotes what Pope Francis said early in his papacy about the clericalization of the laity as it concerns the sanctuary which is one of the fruits, by the way, of the Second Vatican Council! I have some comments on that after this quote:

Clericalization means focusing fundamentally on the things of the clergy and, more specifically, the sanctuary, rather than on bringing the Gospel to the world. Clericalism infects the clergy when they become too self-referential rather than missionary. But it afflicts laypeople worse, when they begin to believe that the fundamental service God is asking of them is to become major donors, recipients of Papal honors, "ministers of hospitality," lectors or extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist at church rather than to live and spread the faith in their families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods and in places where we priests cannot enter.

The reform that is critically needed, then-Cardinal Bergoglio continued in that interview, is "neither to clericalize nor ask to be clericalized. The layperson is a layperson and has to live as a layperson with the power of baptism, which enables him or her to be a leaven of the love of God in society itself, to create and sow hope, to proclaim the faith, not from a pulpit but from his everyday life. And, like all of us, the layperson is called to carry his or her daily cross — the cross of the layperson, not of the priest." Clericalism afflicts many lay Catholics today. While the reforms of the Second Vatican Council have done much to eradicate clericalism, some of it never died, and there is a new wave of it that is alive in the church today.

Fr. Rosica quotes this in the context of stating that the current Armageddon we are experiencing in the Church having to do with Bishops who mismanaged homosexual priests who break their promise of chaste celibacy by sexually abusing mostly male minors in the most grevious ways possible, is a product of clericalism--that priests and laity are more concerned about the "sanctuary" meaning liturgy and liturgical ministers and not going out from themselves to the margins of society.

What rubbish! As Marc says, the current crisis has to do with priests raping minors and bishops not reporting it to law enforcement, and through psychiatric and spiritual renewal of these perverts, the bishops placed them back in ministry in different parishes in their diocese or sent them to other dioceses where the abuse continued unabated.

The true clericalism is that of the bishop and by way of extension, of the pope, who allowed bishops to cover up the abuse to protect the image of the Church and of bishops and priests. That has nothing to do with the things of the sanctuary!!!!! It has to do with immorality, breaking both canon and civil law and then covering it up. This is truly clericalism.

But the most obscene part of what Rosica says that the problem we are now experiencing is that the laity want to be clericalized by things of the sanctuary. But what he says is true only of a minuscule number of laity in this quote from above which most priests told the laity Vatican II wanted them to do!:

But it afflicts laypeople worse, when they begin to believe that the fundamental service God is asking of them is to become major donors, recipients of Papal honors, "ministers of hospitality," lectors or extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist at church rather than to live and spread the faith in their families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods and in places where we priests cannot enter.

BUT WHO IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY HAVE CAUSED THE LAITY TO THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THEY CAN DO FOR THE CHURCH ARE THE LITURGICAL THINGS?  THE POPE AND BISHOPS OF THE WORLD AT THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND BUGNINI WHO REDESIGNED THE LITURGY AND LITURGICAL THEOLOGICANS WHO CONVINCED PRIESTS THAT THE LAITY HAVE TO DO ALL THESE LITRUGICAL THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS RAPING TEENAGE BOYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE MOST HEINOUS  MANNER AND BISHOPS WHO MISMANAGED THEM IN THE MOST HORRIBLE WAYS POSSIBLE?

AND WHAT DOES THE LITURGICAL CLERICLALISM OF THE LAITY HAVE TO DO WITH THE VATICAN, I.E. THE POPE,  PROMOTING THEODORE MCCARRICK TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON, DC AND THEN A CARDINAL WHEN THOSE WHO DID THIS SHOULD HAVE AND MORE THAN  LIKELY DID KNOW HE WAS AN ACTIVE HOMOSEXUAL HAVING SEX, EITHER CONSENSUAL OR NOT,  WITH HIS PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS?

LET'S SPEAK OF THAT KIND OF CLERICLAISM! NOT THE CLERICALISM OF THE SANCTUARY DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!