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...the World Safe from Latin Chant
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Some of the estimated 3 million prisoners of conscience being forcibly re-educated into atheism by the Chinese Communist government.
Catholics worldwide are lurching toward the “learned helplessness” that lab animals slide into after getting shocked too often, till they just stare blankly and tragically through the bars of their little cages. Or parishes, as the case may be.
Deviating the Papacy Down
I wrote two weeks ago about how Pope Francis has discreditedmajor aspects of papal authority by endorsing Rev. James Martin’s campaign for same-sex marriage. Never again will a non-infallible papal statement deserve more than respectful attention and rational scrutiny. The “Ordinary Magisterium” has become either meaningless or a tautology: whatever the Church has always and everywhere taught … until some pope pops up and contradicts it. If that has a mid-1930s, Muscovite Darkness At Noon feel to you, remember that isn’t a bug, but a feature.
But the former high school chemistry teacher from Argentina hasn’t been idle. He moved on promptly from praising James Martin’s“rainbow liturgy” ministry to yanking away the permission Pope Benedict granted for wider celebration of the Church’s ancient liturgy. The one area of the Church where large families, crowded liturgies, and priestly vocations still can be found must be sprayed with weed-killer, Francis announced. I guess such rites embarrass the wealthy, empty rainbow parishes where priests take time off from cruising Grindr to preach about “systemic racism” to elderly rich white folks.
Give God Second-Best, with a Shrug
Continued below.
As Pope Francis' Allies in China Cannibalize Religious Prisoners in Concentration Camps, He Keeps the World Safe from Latin Chant | The Stream
Some of the estimated 3 million prisoners of conscience being forcibly re-educated into atheism by the Chinese Communist government.
Catholics worldwide are lurching toward the “learned helplessness” that lab animals slide into after getting shocked too often, till they just stare blankly and tragically through the bars of their little cages. Or parishes, as the case may be.
Deviating the Papacy Down
I wrote two weeks ago about how Pope Francis has discreditedmajor aspects of papal authority by endorsing Rev. James Martin’s campaign for same-sex marriage. Never again will a non-infallible papal statement deserve more than respectful attention and rational scrutiny. The “Ordinary Magisterium” has become either meaningless or a tautology: whatever the Church has always and everywhere taught … until some pope pops up and contradicts it. If that has a mid-1930s, Muscovite Darkness At Noon feel to you, remember that isn’t a bug, but a feature.
But the former high school chemistry teacher from Argentina hasn’t been idle. He moved on promptly from praising James Martin’s“rainbow liturgy” ministry to yanking away the permission Pope Benedict granted for wider celebration of the Church’s ancient liturgy. The one area of the Church where large families, crowded liturgies, and priestly vocations still can be found must be sprayed with weed-killer, Francis announced. I guess such rites embarrass the wealthy, empty rainbow parishes where priests take time off from cruising Grindr to preach about “systemic racism” to elderly rich white folks.
Give God Second-Best, with a Shrug
Continued below.
As Pope Francis' Allies in China Cannibalize Religious Prisoners in Concentration Camps, He Keeps the World Safe from Latin Chant | The Stream