Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts provides us with the dumbest take on the Pope’s war on traditional Catholicism:
Says so right here:
Yep. I was going to comment, but I realized nothing I could say would make it look worse or less charitable than it already does.
Go here to comment. So, if you have your doubts about the benefits of Vatican II, if you prefer the traditional Mass or if you simply think that the Pope is acting like a bully against faithful Catholics, you are acting like the segregationists of yore. There is no reasoning to support this. It is mere insult from a priest eager to play the race card. The Pope has occasionally warned against clericalism. Spitting on the laity for loving the Mass of the Church from Trent until the day before yesterday, is clericalism on steroids.
Ahh..ummm.
The sixties. Ushering in everything good, free and uhh… can’t remember much of anything else except;
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sitting downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Waiting for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hoping that the train is on time
Sitting downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Who do you love? I hope it’s me
I’ve been changing, as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain
That my momma said
If I should choose to make a part of me
Would surely strike me dead.
Oh yeah…now I remember.
Pot as a sacrament.
A guess.
An edict from Rome.
Remove all confessionals.
Glorify man.
Be free!
What a time to be alive.
Dismantling a channel of grace and resurrecting clowns for Sunday’s big top event. Holy popcorn coming soon.
Sad.
It is high time we distanced ourselves from clerics who hate the past. They are not Catholic, and I suspect that they are not any kind of Christian at all.
Commented at Dave’s site as well: someone wants to be a bishop. And given the current state of things, probably will get his wish
He is actually a retired pastor. Old enough to know better.
I came across that jaw-dropping tweet two days ago, when I was reading the twitter responses to the post highlighted in the “Brezhnev Papacy” article.
It was such a rancid, uncharitable, deeply stupid thing to say that I’d just assumed that the man wasn’t really a priest but some idiot pretending on the internet.
It’s deeply ironic that this man would try to equate preferring the Latin Mass to nostalgia for the Confederacy, when it’s clerics like him who would drive the Latin Mass to something worse than “Separate but Equal”.
This priest is actually cheering for Jim Crow for an entire group of Catholics. Amazing.
Ah. VII. I am rather surprised that, to date, there is neither a Feast Day of, nor parishes dedicated to, the Spirit of Vatican II, such a Thing as it is.
“It is one thing to use an analogy to help convey an idea. It is another thing to argue by analogy or to use an analogy to form an inference or judgment. Analogies are descriptive; they do not prove similarity. Furthermore, they only suggest similarity; they do not establish identity.
Analogies are abused when they try to claim similarity and to establish identity under the guise of merely suggesting that similarity.”
Robert J. Gula, “Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language”
https://www.amazon.com/Nonsense/dp/1604191252