Posted on 03/04/2005 10:04:33 AM PST by ultima ratio
/Southern Baptist 'Campuses'...
Thanks for the ping!
Personally, I am very uncomfortable with Charismatic Masses, and I am embarassed for the Charismatics themselves when I run into them on the street. But if it helps them worship God, who am I to say it's weird or wrong? I don't see their acts disgracing our Lord. Why can't some folks just let other folks be?
Changes have never been opposed by traditional Catholics. But change is one thing, revolution is another. The Bishop's attitude is not only hypocritical, it is in defiance of Catholic Tradition which has always been wary of such emotional displays.
A note to folks - this article is over six years old.
I am wary of some of the charismatics' antics that I have read about, but at our mission, we have a Holy Cross priest who comes once a month or so, and he is a charismatic. I have never heard him say anything particularly unorthodox.
I don't think Bp. Bruskewitz deserves to be attacked for not throwing the charismatics out, unless there are specific disobedient or heretical acts that can be documented.
For shame! Thou art criticizing the "sacred cow" of conservative (neo-con???) Catholics......the great savior of the people: Bp. Fabian Bruskewitz.
Tsk, tsk! Remember - his appointment tere and reign signaled the end to all heresy, apostacy, and sundry weirdness in Lincoln.
All is well. All is well. Just keep repeating this, and remember to take your Ridilin, and watch Oprah.
For shame! This is like criticising holy men like O'Malley, Burke, George, Rigali. Or Egan.
Please...relax! Sit back, read your Rahner, sing a few stanzas of "On Eagles Wings". watch Fr. Benedict Groeschel (conveniently propped up & heavily medicated for your viewing enjoyment), and listen to the music of Fr. Stan Fortuna, as your mind drifts off to the land of Renew 2000.
(OK.....am now turning of the phenomenal sarcasm switch)
It can't be. He is supposed to be the most orthodox bishop in the US. I read that right here on FR.
< /irony >
So?
I noticed that, and besides none of what I read is particularly worrisome. It's certainly not on a par with the Host grabbing guy he recently excommunicated. Though I didn't realize the Host grabber was an ex-Priest. Don't know if you'd know or not, but once the hands of a Priest have been consecrated are they forever so?
Ping
Another note to folks - this bishop, who still holds office, is now considered one of the most "conservative" of his Amchurch peers.
So?
Didn't you get the memo? Everything has to be new and innovative to relevant.
To be relevant or not to be relevant, is the question. :-)
"For shame! This is like criticising holy men like O'Malley, Burke, George, Rigali. Or Egan"
Hey, you forgot Mahoney and O'Brien and Clark. In fact the whole lot is a stew of corruption. Not one of them is worthy of the title "spiritual shepherd."
It's useful also to remember that the so-called Catholic "right" has shifted far to the left. It is now very much a part of the modernist problem.
Don't forget John Kerry's buddy, Cardinal McCarrick .
How about Imesch and George?
And Hubbard, Fiorenza and Skylstad, who, after bankrupting the Diocese of Spokane, was elected by his "peers" to the presidency of the impotent USCCB.
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