tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post7112678829011412920..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: IS PROTESTANT CONGREGATIONALISM COMBINED WITH SPIRIT OF VATICAN II DEMOCRATIZATION OF PARISHES THE CULPRIT THAT LEADS STRONG LAY LEADERS TO GRAB POWER IN PARISHES?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49670772886288819092015-09-14T08:19:31.681-04:002015-09-14T08:19:31.681-04:00Miles...
anon-1Miles...<br /><br />anon-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-7226154094460089782015-09-13T14:13:21.407-04:002015-09-13T14:13:21.407-04:00Anonymous,
Fifty miles or kilometers? Paces? Anonymous,<br /><br />Fifty miles or kilometers? Paces? Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-3085003849258451482015-09-13T13:59:44.566-04:002015-09-13T13:59:44.566-04:00If you do not have a priest, you do not have Mass,...If you do not have a priest, you do not have Mass, if you do not attend Mass on Sunday you are not Catholic....eventually. If there is a parish with priest in 50 reach, ceteris paribus, you have no excuse for not attending.<br />anon-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-43006559493761003132015-09-13T12:26:42.745-04:002015-09-13T12:26:42.745-04:00Anonymous,
You should pray for the virtue of hope...Anonymous,<br /><br />You should pray for the virtue of hope. Perhaps you even need faith.Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-16777797384953715552015-09-13T07:58:09.083-04:002015-09-13T07:58:09.083-04:00Anonymous, does this mean it is ok for me to look ...Anonymous, does this mean it is ok for me to look at nude pics of Charlize Theron?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-89557063242952781152015-09-13T06:24:25.070-04:002015-09-13T06:24:25.070-04:00Why don't we all just become Episcopalians rig...Why don't we all just become Episcopalians right now! <br /><br />That seems to be the prevailing opinion from the very top down to the bottom in the Church. We want things to look semi Catholic but not to much. People don't want liturgy that is dignified and overtly Catholic but just with a tinge of Catholicism. We want to promote the Gospel, but ignore it when it interferes with modernism. <br /><br />I mean really it is ridiculous what is going on in the Church. Bishop after bishop calling for the most scandoulous things. Entire bishops conferences calling for recognition of sodomy etc. The truth is being attacked and maligned daily. Nothing is being done to stop it. And the TRUTH is that this pope is making things worse. He isn't clearly teaching the Catholic Faith. He compromises it at every available occasion. Modernism has won. That is the truth. Modernism has won. Why not stop all pretense. Just throw the bible and the cathecishm into the garbage can and tell everybody that anything they want to do is fine, nobody goes to Hell except people that actually believe what the Church has always taught. Just tell the laity to keep the checks comings, turn off the lights and everybody go on a cruise and do whatever the hell they want to do. That's basically what we have. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42506626795559627162015-09-13T01:28:48.737-04:002015-09-13T01:28:48.737-04:00Father, you don't know the half of it. We hav...Father, you don't know the half of it. We have a parish in your very own diocese where a member of the parish council led an effort to destroy a priest. How?<br /><br />Letter writing campaigns to the bishop to complain about the new pastor<br /><br />Diverting funds<br /><br />Generating false publicity about the priest<br /><br />Using OTHER PRIESTS in the diocese as advisors in the subversion<br /><br />And, of course, the usual tool of gossip. Deacons from this parish were also enlisted. And of course, everyone on this list would only respond with, "Who, me?" if the subject were broached. They cover it all with a smile, cloaked in the mantle of respectability. They are killing their own parish.<br /><br />And they think the rest of us don't know.<br /><br />God will not be mocked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-36819216148287859562015-09-12T23:18:16.165-04:002015-09-12T23:18:16.165-04:00My previous parish had the same discussion about h...My previous parish had the same discussion about holding "services" without a priest some years ago. They seemed excited about it. I don't think much came from it as I don't recall that contingency being needed. I think it is not a bad idea to have such a service available, but it should be very different and emphasize the absence of the priest and consecration to drive home the need. <br /><br />I do think there is a lot of weakness in priests when confronted by the laity who feel empowered by some interpretation of Vatican II. This seems to flow from a lack of support from the diocese who seem interested in the numbers of people in the pews rather than the numbers of Catholics. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-43437886071236523732015-09-12T15:03:56.663-04:002015-09-12T15:03:56.663-04:00Gob, we love Protestants so much that we want them...Gob, we love Protestants so much that we want them to convert to the Catholic Faith so that they can more readily reach salvation through the reception of the Sacraments. We are trashing them because their heresy rips people away from the bosom of Holy Mother Church and risks the damnation of countless souls. Lefebvriannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-48845331734172484542015-09-12T13:37:17.631-04:002015-09-12T13:37:17.631-04:00Go,
Why are you running out of priests? We have ...Go,<br /><br />Why are you running out of priests? We have so many in my diocese that it's hard to find a place for them all. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49398565403885035662015-09-12T13:21:17.489-04:002015-09-12T13:21:17.489-04:00And there's another memo that some may have mi...And there's another memo that some may have missed...it says that we white American Catholics should be prepping for more and more priests who don't look like us (Think "Fifty Shades of Brown".) or talk like us (Think "ESL".)<br /><br />And there's WAY too much dissing and trashing Protestants. We are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82644898523897419922015-09-12T12:50:41.311-04:002015-09-12T12:50:41.311-04:00I agree with Gene on this one. I agree with Gene on this one. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-39022200674702473672015-09-12T12:29:07.121-04:002015-09-12T12:29:07.121-04:00Anon 11:14...Sounds like you didn't get the me...Anon 11:14...Sounds like you didn't get the memo, dude....We're running out of priests....Lots of folks are having to make do...goobernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-12004063678931392672015-09-12T11:41:28.825-04:002015-09-12T11:41:28.825-04:00I once had a man invite me to his parish, doing so...I once had a man invite me to his parish, doing so by openly bragging that "We don't need a priest." I stared at him, dumbfounded. He quickly looked uncomfortable and left. Catholics who engage in this kind of Protestant behavior do not even realize what they are saying, and only get uncomfortable when confronted with the absurdity of their statements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-76843252065554523912015-09-12T11:14:55.743-04:002015-09-12T11:14:55.743-04:00One church I have attended put out a bulletin prep...One church I have attended put out a bulletin preparing parishioners for the "New Rite for Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest" The "New Rite" was approved by USCCB in 2007. I think the extraordinary ministers and parish councils and parish life directors have succeeded in their mission. They replaced their Priest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53379589173623488422015-09-12T10:32:45.213-04:002015-09-12T10:32:45.213-04:00No...weak Priests and Bishops allow this to happen...No...weak Priests and Bishops allow this to happen.Calvin of Hipponoreply@blogger.com