On of these days, the Catholics will stop blaming their problems on non Catholic churches. If it isn’t the protestants, it is the orthodox. If not them, the free masons.
There was synod that just concluded where the Pope was saying nice things about gays, and it was blamed on the Protestants.
We all have issues, because we are all fallen. Stop complaining, start fixing
Some where I read that by blame shifting we lose the power to change ourselves.
It’s a sad state of affairs the the church which calls itself the one true church and boasts about how the gates of hell won’t prevail against it, blame shifts all it’s problem onto someone else, as if it’s the victim in this world.
Too bad they don’t know the over coming power of Jesus Christ.
I was responding to an article that appears to put a lot of blame on the Catholic church for Catholics following the prevailing norms in the wider culture, the norms of modern Western society. The title "Catholics, the Real Liberals" does give that impression.
I just wanted to point out that Catholics share the values of the larger society, and that it wasn't so very long ago when (mainstream or liberal) Protestants used to attack Catholics for holding on to older values and ways of thinking.
Catholics decided to assimilate to secular culture on their own (or they drifted into it). They can't blame anyone else for it, and the modern secular West is as much Catholic as Protestant, but surely one can note the irony of history here.
We all have issues, because we are all fallen.
Agreed.