[tioga]

Amen. My church has removed kneelers.....taken the crucifix down, laughs at the pope........I however remain loyal to the Pope and am essentially an underground orthodox Catholic in my church. My faith is strong, my church is weak.

[Mad Dawg]

My parish has put in kneelers AND a statue of Mary WITH a candle rack thingie! We LOVE Papa Ben: we pray for the cause of the canonization of J2P2: we have a vital and growing pro-chapter of the Dominican Laity; we have RCIA that involves (hold onto your hats) real live theology and real live discussions of virtue and vice and sin and redemption!

We have young men offering themselves for the priesthood, one of our members just left to become a Franciscan sister and not in one of them thar feminist covens neither! We only have three catechumens this year, but 20-some people to be confirmed on Easter, and over thirty last year and 5 catechumens.

I'm not worried