To be more specific: about the covering-up of religiou symbols by Georgetown during the Obama talk last year? Georgetown is a separately-incorporated entity which severed itself from the formal control of the Church in, IIRC, 1967. A more proper criticism of them would be that they are not Catholic enough.
About the giving of a public, honorific church funeral to a scandalous abortion-supporter like Kennedy? This is in violation of Canon Law: see Canon 1184-3 "Church funerals are to be denied to the following (unless they gave some sign of repentance before their death): manifest sinners to whom a church funeral could not be granted without public scandal to the faithful."
Once again, the problem is not that the Archdiocese of Boston is too Catholic, but that it is not Catholic enough. It has cozied up with the Enemy against the Church.
I am as sick at heart over this bullsh!! as you are. Not because the Catholic Church is a scam, but that the Church is betrayed from within.
As has happened hundreds or thousands of times since the beginning. Think of the Twelve Apostles, Jesus' individually-chosen right-hand men: one of them betrayed Him; another denied Him; and most of the rest headed for the tall grass when Jesus was bound and led off to be slain.
The Cross. The Grave. Resurrection. Pentecost.
The funeral is at a Redemptorist mission. How many Redemptorists do you know pay any heed to a bishop? There are some really good Redemptorists out there, but orthodox isn’t part of their motto. For them, this is a pastoral issue. From the way this has all been set up, the Archdiocese of Boston, officially anyway, is not involved.
If the Church itself isn't doing anything to stop this sort of abuse from within, then it is a scam. It's sacriligious and God wouldn't permit it. Period.
You can foam at the mouth and call it whatever you like, it still doesn't take away from the fact it's happening before your eyes unabated.
God is not permissive, so why should the Church be? That's not what God intended anyway.
The greater sin is being on the inside, standing idle, allowing it to happen.
The longer the Vatican sits on it's hands, the greater the mixed message it sends to the Catholic church.
but that the Church is betrayed from within.
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So?...what’s the plan for reform? As I see it, Catholic families would need to raise up righteous young men, who would attend corrupt seminaries. If their moral integrity survived the seminary influences, then finally, when they are old, they could enact needed reforms.
This would be a 50 to 80 year project just to **begin** the reform needed. How many souls will be led astray in the mean time?