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‘A step back in time': America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
AP "News" ^ | Updated 12:07 AM EDT, May 1, 2024 | BY TIM SULLIVAN

Posted on 05/01/2024 6:41:37 PM PDT by xoxox

The progressive priests who dominated the U.S. church in the years after Vatican II are now in their 70s and 80s. Many are retired. Some are dead. Younger priests, surveys show, are far more conservative.

“They say they’re trying to restore what us old guys ruined,” said the Rev. John Forliti, 87, a retired Twin Cities priest who fought for civil rights and reforms in Catholic school sex education.

Doug Koesel, an outspoken 72-year-old priest at Blessed Trinity Parish in Cleveland, was blunter: “They’re just waiting for us to die.”

At St. Maria Goretti, once steeped in the ethos of Vatican II, many parishioners saw the changes as a requiem.

“I don’t want my daughter to be Catholic,” said Christine Hammond, whose family left the parish when the new outlook spilled into the church’s school and her daughter’s classroom. “Not if this is the Roman Catholic Church that is coming.”

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TOPICS: History; Religion
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To: stanne; aMorePerfectUnion

As the Protestants and Roman Catholics rage at each other...the Orthodox just quietly go on doing what they do....


41 posted on 05/02/2024 11:52:34 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: mdmathis6

Show me where I am raging at a Protestant. Please provide quotes

Defending one’s faith is most certainly not raging

That is an insult


42 posted on 05/02/2024 12:01:09 PM PDT by stanne
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To: mdmathis6

I really don’t know about raging.
Orthodox get many things right.


43 posted on 05/02/2024 12:07:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I was sort of Joking...

Of late when I see Prots and Cath’s “discussing”...I see the Orthodox like the introvert shy girl in the corner hoping that someone will ask to dance with her...


44 posted on 05/02/2024 12:20:02 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: stanne

I was sort of Joking...

Of late when I see Prots and Cath’s “discussing”...I see the Orthodox like the introvert shy girl in the corner hoping that someone will ask to dance with her...

Given that both you and A more perfect were taken aback...I see I was over the target.


45 posted on 05/02/2024 12:22:48 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: mdmathis6

Over the target. What?

I’m defending my faith

Read what I wrote if you want to comment

Catholics, or may come as a surprise to the ignorant, are never in the business of telling other religions that they are wrong.

Catholicism does not need to tell others how they are better or different in order to have peace We receive the sacraments, practice our religion and have no concern tat others have different boilers


46 posted on 05/02/2024 12:53:23 PM PDT by stanne
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To: mdmathis6

😊


47 posted on 05/02/2024 1:01:14 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

LOL! Have a good day!


48 posted on 05/02/2024 1:51:32 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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