As a non-Catholic could someone please explain to me why the rules of the Catholic keep changing. As far as I know the church is susposed to be based on the teachings of the Bible and the Bible has not changed in 2000 years.
There's a difference between non-doctrinal traditions, like holy days of obligation, and doctrinal traditions, like the Trinity. The first is important, but not as important as the second.
The Church has always ackowledged that many rules of observance are man-made laws, just as the laws of the United States are, and are just as subject to change. Faith and morals do not change, but rules of practice may.
Because of "aggiornamento", Vatican II and a slew of Modernists who are bent on her destruction.
No other faith has changed as much these past 40 years, Our defense used to be our faith, traditions, and our unity, Vatican II and the liberals have done away with that in the name of ecumenism and lay participation (as they feared the Protestants hence the reason our New Mass mimics the mass of Luther in so many ways).
The 4 marks of the church are gone, as well as the sacraments as they have been changed as well. Baptism no longer has anything to do with original sin but is a "welcoming of one" into the christian community. Priestly ordinations were changed in 1968 as were the very words used to consecrate our Lords body and make it "the Lords Supper" instead of "the sacrifice of the Mass"
This is why many who know of these changes, done overnight and really, with no offense to those who are Protestant, dont want to be Protestant and the Novus Ordo is trying to make us be (hence the reason why they joined the WCC which was started by the Protestants and the change of the mass in 1970 done overnight) and those that want to still be Catholic attend the Traditional Mass and WILL go to mass today as it IS a Holy day in the Traditional societies.
We can only pray for our fallen away Novus Ordo brethered that they realize that they are being led down a slippery slope that even to outsiders such as the Orthodox and Protestants and even Jewish friends of mine they cant quite understand what has happened to the New Church of the Novus Ordo