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Rod Dreher, a columnist with the Dallas Morning News, was once a columnist with the NY Post. He and his family, disenchanted with the masses offered up in the Diocese of Brooklyn,

Why did he become disenchanted?

Same reason you did?

Don't try to preach to Roman Catholic tradionalists about the virtues of the Novus Ordo, while you stand on your Maronite pulpit, unless you wish to be called a hypocrite.

92 posted on 08/07/2004 6:47:26 PM PDT by Land of the Irish

To: Land of the Irish

You missed the point of my post ... not surprisingly.

94 posted on 08/07/2004 6:53:31 PM PDT by NYer (When you have done something good, remember the words "without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5).)

To: Land of the Irish; sinkspur

Don't try to preach to Roman Catholic tradionalists about the virtues of the Novus Ordo, while you stand on your Maronite pulpit, unless you wish to be called a hypocrite.

NOT A MATTER OF FAITH

I don’t know why the Church has made all these changes. I don’t like many of them. But I am not going to help my Church by leaving it. I’m not going to put a condition on my obedience. Yes, it was easier to be obedient when I agreed with everything they did in Rome. Yes, it’s harder to be obedient now. But OBEDIENCE IS OBEDIENCE. The only time I have a right [even an obligation] to not be obedient to my superiors in the Church is when it is a matter of Faith. Fidelity to faith is stronger than the law of Obedience (St. Augustine). The New Order Mass is not a matter of Fidelity to doctrine. When the Mass changed, Padre Pio wrote to the Holy Father offering his support in the changes and turned his altar around just before his death September 23, 1968.

96 posted on 08/07/2004 6:58:36 PM PDT by NYer (When you have done something good, remember the words "without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5).)

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