Let no one say that the Pope has not benefited from the Vatican-China deal.
PopeWatch: Chinese Example
- 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.
They can try to force reeducation.
But the trads here owe the institution nothing. Least of all attendance at Maoist “You Toxic People Suck” sessions.
I guess modernists are really pining for another Ruthenian “schism,” given how well the last one worked out.
This papacy is a great recruiter for SSPX.
In 2004, I had a conversation with a parish priest in the Diocese of Syracuse. I ask him why the parish was using eucharistic ministers (his predecessor did not) when a recent document had been issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship instructing that they weren’t intended for anything but extraordinary circumstances. He tells me it’s Bishop Moynihan’s policy to use them and the extra minutes it saves will be of use to people. I stopped attending that parish, less because of the irritation at irregular use of eucharistic ministers than at the gratuitousness of the ‘policy’, the willingness of the ‘administrator’ to listen to the bishop on the matter, and the priest offering an asinine excuse to my face about it.
Note, the bishop where I currently reside has ended the Latin Mass in the diocese. No, ‘it’s the Bishop’s policy’ in this matter. We’ve arrived at a point where you should assume your bishop’s a douche until he proves otherwise.
Kneelers? We don’t need no stinkin’ kneelers.
Continue to bravely and reverently kneel in the holy presence of the Lord. Simple. Hard, but simple.
Tell the revisionist liturgists that we all saw this episode of Stupid Church Tricks when it first aired in the 60s. We’re not volunteering for the status of go along to get along loser a second time. Besides, two factors are in our favor now. First – they’re old. Second – they are no longer the new fresh thinking. This is the time for evergreen truths, not stale renewal. Just like every other time.