Deacon Sinkspur: Just because I do not inhabit and never have and never will the Kumbaya nightmare world of modernist AmChurch types does not mean that I am uncharitable. The Vatican must really be galling you and others like you by restoring Catholicism to diocese after diocese by attrition. Soon enough there will be a new bishop, maybe even a Catholic in Fort Worth.
It is NOT charitable to:
Undermine the faith of others in spite of undertaking minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church persistently betrayed by AmChurch;
Cheerlead the artificial shortage of priests created by the twin evils of birth control and destruction of theological orthodoxy;
Support despicable perversions of Western Civilization and of the Roman Catholic faith expressed in such elitist court decisions as Martin vs. Lawrence: The "approval of sodomy as legal in Texas whatever Texan legislators might say" case;
Relentless unjustified attacks on legitimate Vatican authority (not Euroweenie Cardinal Martino but real authority) emanating from the resentment of the Vatican's refusal to let you have your cake and eat it too in the form of ordination to the priesthood despite the fact that you chose marriage freely and willingly understanding the consequences of your choice;
Advocate "democracy" in the pews so that demagogy might produce rule of AmChurch by mob ignorance reflecting the theology of Ted Kennedy (hic!) to replace the real thing, the self-discipline of Rembert Weakland, the heretical views of modernists, the curious peccadilloes of the Bernardins and O'Briens and Pilarczyks and Pillas and Delaneys while we all hold hands and chant mantras of tender love for the flavor of the week in bizarre parodies of Catholicism, lifted On Eagle's Wings (or whatever)......
Rudeness?????? Truth! (Unvarnished/With the bark on!)
LOL
The diaconate is a major order.
Amen!