Certainly some very good points.
But these issues seem to set-up a fork in this thread. And going down the side which results in lots of brick bats instead of spiritual sharing and mutually edifying one another
. . . would be a huge disappointment to me, and, I think, to our Lord.
. . . would be a huge disappointment to me, and, I think, to our Lord.
Not being a chr*stian, I think the miserable attitude towards the Divinely-Dictated Word of G-d by so many chr*stians (especially the most ancient, authentic traditions) says something very important about chr*stianity as a whole.
Cardinal Kasper has hit upon a home truth: Catholics leave the Church for the Pentecostal movement not because the Catholic Church has promoted a strict interpretation of its doctrine, but because the Church's pastors have permitted a neglect of fundamental doctrines and have allowed a wishy-washy spiritual vagueness to obscure the need for a holy life of prayer and charity.
I have listened to enough boring "homilies" by priests who ramble on and on about their personal lives and almost anything except the Gospel text they are supposed to be preaching on that day, that I don't blame anyone looking for more substantial spiritual instruction.