[Benrand]

I just find it ODD that there are girls doing the job of altar boys. It is part of the hippy dippy stuff that started in when I was in Cath grade school in the late 70's...kumbaya and all that, the holding hands.

The thing that got me really incensed was a younger priest, right after 911, going on about how we essentially deserved it, the Golden Calf and so forth. I am not a Bible scholar so I'm not sure what chapter and verse, but to choose that as the basis of your homily was offensive. There is a certain leftism in the Church, IMO. The Church helps many but there is too much lefty self-sacrifice for my tastes.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

I too am surprised by the left-lean of many Catholics when the liberal platform seems to go against almost all Church teachings. I think it has shifted in recent years, though. When our Irish priest made a rude comment about Bush, he noticed a very quiet, cold congregation (and we usuallly love him and laugh at appropriate things) and back tracked pretty darn quickly.

[bat1816]

I would be quite happy to see the Church return to a more traditional mass without the pop music and boomboxes, the live band entertainment, the childish skits that are supposed to teach us a lesson, the holding hands and hugging your neighbor so we can all feel good, etc......
I always hated those type of masses.

[wideawake]

Interesting take.

There is a certain leftism in the Church, IMO.

I think this perception derives from what is called the "preferential option for the poor."

It is often abused, and it lends itself very easily to leftisty distortion.

The Church helps many but there is too much lefty self-sacrifice for my tastes.

The lefties are rarely the ones doing the self-sacrificing.