If we stick to being the best Catholics we know how to be and if we pray for vocations, I ain't gonna worry.
But I AM going to do penance for the massively culpable way the Church south of the Rio Grande has behaved sometimes.
When my former pastor and I started offering to provide sacramental ministries right in the migrant worker camps around here, the leaders of the camps greeted us with less than overwhelming enthusiasm, which confused us.
Then it finally surfaced that they thought we were going to CHARGE them for these services!
Madre de Dios!
It's as if the Bishops south of the Border forgot what their call was, and decided to monetize the martyrdom of their predecessors.
“Oh good. A fight! That’ll bring peace.”
Peace is the interval between the time you last stomped evil’s butt, and the time evil gets it together to attack you again.
So, yes, a fight is the only thing short of the Second Coming that can bring peace.
“But I AM going to do penance for the massively culpable way the Church south of the Rio Grande has behaved sometimes.”
It’s not always so great north of the Rio Grande, either. In the Boise diocese you could starve to death spiritually and physically before the Church would bestir itself...even before you could run one of these phantom priests to ground.
Of course, you could go to St. Paul’s Catholic center at Boise State University where Deacon Skoro teaches that “sex is the meaning of life.”
You know, I’ve never really thought to ask this, so I’ll ask it here - why is the Catholic Church the only one that puts so much emphasis on Mary? When Protestant churches split off from the Church, why did they leave that part behind?
Not trying to start a religious war here, just realized how ignorant I am of this major difference. For the record, raised Protestant but have attended Catholic mass.