The USCCB got rightly clobbered on the Internet for this:
They responded with more USCCB speak:
These people are either complete fools or they think we are.
The following passage from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series says it all in regard to this type of word salad speak:
“The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications – in short, all the goo and dribble – he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out.
Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.”
If Christ comes back tomorrow the USCCB better beware of whips.
This has all the earmarks of a LGBTQ++ seminar put on by a woke managerial class to those forced to attend.
Once again, no mention of God, souls, heaven, the mission, etc. They have no idea what their purpose and actual goals are. They have no faith at all.
I understand the USCCB’s original tweet received so much criticism that further comments were shut off.
If true, that’s a telling bit of irony: rightly criticized for its fatuous gobbdeygook about listening and dialogue, the USCCB covered its ears and shut down the dialogue.
Of all the post-V2 “reforms” imposed on the faithful, the endorsement and encouragement of national bishop’s conferences may have had the most devastating effect on the state of the Church. Especially in more populous Western nations, it seems to have resulted in a nearly complete abdication to the conferences of the bishops’ responsibilities for teaching the Faith and being true shepherds. That means abdication to the types of managerial class creatures who are capable of producing such linguistic insults to human intelligence as these examples, and not much else. There are honorable exceptions among the bishops, of course, like Paprocki, Nauman, Sample, Cordileone, etc., but they are rare, and becoming more so the longer the current faction controls the appointment process. Others have said here, and I agree, that the conferences serve no legitimate purpose and should be dissolved forthwith. Probably won’t happen in my lifetime, sad to say.
So, we’re agreed on the problem. What’s the solution? Were I close to an Anglican Ordinariate Parish, I would be going to Mass there. But I’m not. And I don’t think it’s possible to switch to Eastern Orthodox. Pray?
Yes. And suffer, and stand firm. I’m going down swinging. These eunuchs won’t win. In the meantime, i aim to emulate those brave souls at the Chicago March for Life.
We have the Eucharist- the true Body and Blood of Christ. That’s all that matters. They’ll get their day.
What to do? The people in power are asking for our opinion; we give it. Whether they listen is up to them, but if we fail to speak we’re responsible.
”Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As St Catherine of Siena said:
“We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues – I see the world is rotten because of silence.”
They think we are fools, I know it.
That individual is an intellectual snob.