The Pope: clueless or malign?
Snotty or Silly, Take Your Choice
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
We can nourish more young men to hear God’s call to become selfless and enter into religious life, becoming priests and expanding God’s Kingdom, saving souls, building communities of forgiveness and grow the Holy Catholic Church…
Or…
We can continue what we’ve been doing for the past 63 years. Watch the decline of attendence and the decline of seminarians and increase of selling off God’s property.
We can sip a frappuccino inside what used to be a Catholic Church but was sold and now ponder the significance of the old altar space. A place where a priest cooperated with God to bring God to souls and feed souls His own body and blood but now a barista carefully puts the finishing touches on top of a cappuccino, while in the streets a loud speaker is blaring out the call for prayer from the roof of a mosque two blocks away.
I guess “there’s no problem.”
There should never again be a Latin American pontiff. Prevost’s MAGA brother would have been a better choice.
You all know this story. Back in 1st Kings chapter 3, Solomon had to decide a case brought to him by two prostitutes who both had delivered babies. The infant of one of the prostitutes had died but the other one lived. Yet each accused the other of stealing the live baby for the dead baby. Solomon’s decision was clear: he took a sword and was going to divide the live child, giving half to each woman (that’s Democrat equity, right?). But the rightful mother was willing to surrender the child to her adversary than to see it die. My point is this: if that same case had been brought to Pope Leo XIV, he would have told the women to share the child so that it would have two mothers. Yup, that’s what these post Vatican II clerics who avoid offense at any cost would do. They are moral weaklings and cowards, always ready to take the easy path that doesn’t offend anyone (unless you’re conservative traditionalist because after all, you’re the one who is being intolerant, non-inclusive, and divisive). As far as I am concerned, all these worthless clerics should be deposed and anathematized. After 13 years of that heretical Marxist Peronist Caudillo having reigned in Saint Peter’s chair, I am done with this nonsense.
“After 13 years of that heretical Marxist Peronist Caudillo having reigned in Saint Peter’s chair, I am done with this nonsense.”
It’s a heavy Cross we carry but we carry non the less. Today is it. Nobody has tomorrow.
The horizon is only as visible as our vantage point allows, but we trust in the one that has a vantage point extremely higher than ours.
That’s good enough for me.
The Pope? Cupich? Rupnik?
Let no man steal the Peace that God has given you for it has come to you at a price you could never afford. The Blood of God’s Son.
I get it. I too get frustrated but I don’t have the privilege of being God’s counselor.
Not once has He asked me for advice.
Because of that I simply do my part to be ready when the bridegroom comes. I won’t spill my oil and be found wanting when midnight comes and my savior appears.
Jesus I do Trust in you, regardless of the times that we find ourselves in.
HOLD FAST
It’s not really true, is it. Let’s see what happens when NO priests start saying the Mass in Latin. Or even just Ad Orientem. Gosh. I’m sure that’ll be all hunky dory. Right? RIGHT?!?
Is it really Vatican II or the spirit of Vatican II? The spirit of Vatican II is the spirit of the devil, the murderer, the destroyer, the hater of God.
Steven-
Spot on.
Clueless or malign? Both!
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Don,
Not sure. Novus Ordo in Latin, Ad Orientem, without concelebrants, Roman Canon, seems to assuage the faithful
Lepanto Eric-
Try to move any NO Masses in the direction of any one of the directions you describe and you will find wailing and gnashing of teeth. Also hissy fits, letters to the bishop and reprimands from the chancery to stop rocking the boat. I’ve seen a choir member/EC/CCD teacher positively seethe when our priest had the temerity to do *one song* in Latin- and she was considered the reasonable party in the conflict that followed.
In my opinion, the TLM is attended because it is all one piece, without the innumerable options (and consequent conflicts) that are inherent in the NO. In short, you don’t have to fight the Spirit of V2 people because they would never voluntarily go to a TLM.
Full disclosure: I generally attend the NO in a generally reverent parish that has no Latin & no ad orientem. It does many things to make me sad, but none wrong enough to make me leave.
The Vatican II Mass brings the priest to turn his back on the Real Presence of Christ in the tabernacle. The Vatican II Mass brings the priest to leave the Sacred Species of Christ’s Body and Blood on the altar while shaking hands with the worshippers.
I sat in the last pew. The priest came to me leaving Jesus alone and unattended to shake my hand. What is wrong with the Vatican II Mass?