[Aquinasfan]

Oh man. What's with "mission statements" for individual Catholic churches? Who comes up with these idiotic ideas?

[Notwithstanding]

Well, you see, for some reason, some parishoners have tended to forget that "assisting the bishop with the salvation of local souls through evangelization and the sacraments" is the primary goal of any parish.

Sadly, too many pastors ignored and abandoned that goal, and slyly reconfigured the parish into a group therapy hug-in. The ake mission statements are a combination of:

1) an attempt to pacify anyone who wonders why salvation of souls is never mentioned at Mass (by sort of hinting at that in the written mission statment)

AND

2) an attempt to use the words "peace and justice" and "church community" so as to further the leftist ideology of many priestniks

[Jeff Chandler]

You should only confess actions or lack of actions that your conscience tells you are wrong... If you are not conflicted about something, or if your conscience is genuinely confortable with a perticular course of action, why should you bring it up, unless you are truly bothered by it?

 

Bill Clinton couldn't have said it any better.