Strong Catholic preaching coming from the pulpits, solid meat and potatoes Catholicism has largely been replaced by a psychobabble that is no better than “chicken soup for the soul”. And this present reality has had serious consequences. The first I call “Latin flight”- people leaving the very rite that they grew up in, the Latin Rite Catholics that they are, and they begin to head towards the east, knowing that the Church “breathes with both lungs” they have found more “spiritual oxygen” if you will in the Maronite, Byzantine or Melkite Rite. Furthermore , some have headed off to Fundamentalist Protestant groups, where at least they can hear a sermon that Christ is Lord and universal Savior of the human race, and the bible being utterly inerrant.
I thought of you when I heard this...;-)
2 posted on 10/20/2005 10:34:44 AM PDT by murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)