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Bishops: "We Need to Confiscate Any and All Weapons of Private Devotion"
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) just met for their annual conferencesynodal encounter (somehow letting Bishop Strickland in!) and elected a new president, Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley.
But rather than allowing synodal engagement with the concerns raised by Bishop Strickland about recent actions of Fr. Martin James to continue, the assembly decided that other, more urgent matters, needed to be addressed and, in a gesture of harsh, but synodal, synodality, told him that they thought the ways of the spirit required that they no longer engage in their synodal encounter of listening to him. (TRANSLATION from the Synodalish: They ignored him.)
“The Catholic Church in the United States,” Bishop William W. Walker of West Palm Beach warned the assembly, “faces the grave danger of people not actively participating in the singing after Holy Communion. In my diocese alone, we’ve caught 165 instances in just the last month of people failing to sing ‘All Are Welcome’ and ‘We Remember’ and instead praying on these old-fashioned devices called ‘rosaries.’ We need to find a way to stop this. Beautiful performances of these classic hymns are being wrecked by people praying silently, while the clowns and LGBTQY+$67#!@|\?/ activists feel uncomfortable with people praying in that way in church.”
Continued below.
USCCB Votes to Introduce Rosary Checks at the Door
Bishops: "We Need to Confiscate Any and All Weapons of Private Devotion"