"You and yours may elevate disrespect for the papacy into a lifestyle"
I am not a scholar, however I do tend to side with the traditionalists. We do not look for non-traditionalists to kick out of the Church or enjoy criticism of His Holiness and to imply that we do is extremist.
I would think that traditionalists are worried that modernists have turned the papacy into a lifestyle issue and that the trend is causing many problems withing the Church.
True, sageb1!
The fear is that total respect for the Mass will be lost, and that in the future everything might be accepted. What can keep future popes from ordaning women or letting Bill Clinton say Mass with them, if the pope allows an anglican "bishop" to be present with him during Mass??
What do you think, marshmallow, is what has let to priests change the wording of some of the sacraments to the point of making them invalid? Even BAPTISM, which is the most simple of them all to confer?
ALso, bishops and priests, have encouraged Catholics to attend protestant services, when they know that what is going to be preached there wont be Catholic teaching? In the 1917 Code of Canon Law this was prohibited, why do you, marshmallow, think this was? Going against that canon with a new canon, without any real necessity, doesnt alarm you, especially if the changes came from the top of the hiararchy, not from the people??
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