I have never been inclined to papiolotry, as opposed to a great appreciation for the office created by Christ and its vast history, but if I had been, this kidney stone of a papacy would have cured me of that affliction.
Our Pope Never Fails to Disappoint
- 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.
Somehow I suspect that dissing the past, is thus dissing tradition, which is dissing God’s Church.
Says the man who is occupying the Chair of St Peter. In a city steeped in history, with treasures, traditions and art accumulated over many centuries. His lack of self-awareness is amusing.
Disturbing…
A pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Fatima, etc. could be considered seeking the Lord among the ruins of the past. Could The Mass, the rosary, etc. be called “a habit of the past”?
He’s more the HIV of a papacy. He spreads to certain groups, and there’s no cure except death.
I would say a Christianity that pits the present or future against the past is a Christianity without Easter.
It’s ironic the pope says this while commemorating an event that took place two thousand years ago.
When will he get to the punch line and realize the seat he occupies is the oldest in our Church?
He thinks secularizing the Church will make the world holy and he has it backwards.
Ever have that older pastor who has five homilies and rotates through them?
Ever have that older pastor who has five homilies and rotates through them?
No, I had an ancient pastor who had been building a file of homilies since the 1940s, one for each Sunday of the liturgical year, annotated at irregular intervals by his readings of the Church Fathers. His homilies had a stereotyped format and always began with telling us the Biblical School of Jerusalem’s estimate of the date of the event in the Gospel and always concluded with an admonishment for the coming week. He was the finest preacher I have ever encountered. Curiously, his congregation had evaporated under him for reasons no one left there could fathom. There were just a few dozen left when infirmity forced him into retirement.
The only Tradition he’s ended is the Tradition of seriously considering papal pronouncements.