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Archdiocese Cracks Down on St Stephen's Parish in Minneapolis (insiders look at their service)
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Posted on 03/04/2008 1:01:49 PM PST by NYer

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Marching out from the Church

1 posted on 03/04/2008 1:01:52 PM PST by NYer
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
The Community of St. Stephen’s
Sunday, March 2, 2008


Above and below: At 8:45 a.m., members of the community gathered in the gym for a “leave-taking” ritual.




Above and below: At the conclusion of this ritual, most of the 9:00 a.m. community members and their supporters made their way to Park House - their new worshiping space.





Above: About 50 community members remained in the gym in “holy resistance” and participated in a Eucharistic celebration.
2 posted on 03/04/2008 1:04:06 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
The Community of St. Stephen’s
Sunday, March 2, 2008


Above and below: At 8:45 a.m., members of the community gathered in the gym for a “leave-taking” ritual.




Above and below: At the conclusion of this ritual, most of the 9:00 a.m. community members and their supporters made their way to Park House - their new worshiping space.





Above: About 50 community members remained in the gym in “holy resistance” and participated in a Eucharistic celebration.
3 posted on 03/04/2008 1:04:52 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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Goodbye, and good riddance.

I hope they don't go infect some Protestant community. I wouldn't wish these loons on my worst enemy.

May God, in His Infinite Mercy, grant them the graces of repentance and conversion.

4 posted on 03/04/2008 1:06:18 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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About 50 community members remained in the gym in “holy resistance” and participated in a Eucharistic celebration.

Objection, your honour! Their activities are neither holy, nor eucharistic.

5 posted on 03/04/2008 1:07:52 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: NYer

How cute! Children playing church. Actually children should not be allowed to play in the sanctuary, it’s not a playground.


6 posted on 03/04/2008 1:10:25 PM PST by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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I’ve only been subjected to the layperson Homily once, this past Thanksgiving....though the first reading was supressed in favor of a Pagan Indian Prayer.

Very horrible, it was in Pawtucket RI.

Now that the TLM is back at Holy Trinity (at 9am!!!!), Boston, I’m ending up there more often than not.

I’m wondering if the Traddies may finally have one me over.


7 posted on 03/04/2008 1:22:47 PM PST by Cheverus
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their tremendous social outreach ministries to the poor and needy of the city

I would be very interested in hearing more detail on this -- a theme that recurs in stories about this "parish" but with no detail. Color me skeptical -- my own observation has been that the left is more into self-congratulation and government agencies and feel-good cr@p that benefits no one than they go for actual charity. Maybe these people are the exception, but I'd really like to know more.

8 posted on 03/04/2008 1:30:12 PM PST by maryz
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Most look like aging hippies.


9 posted on 03/04/2008 1:32:31 PM PST by pbear8 (The innocent cry out to God)
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As much as I’m a traditional Catholic who relishes the idea of the return of the Tridentine Mass, these people are really just enjoying themselves on a Sunday morning. Sure, they’re dissident Catholics, but they are really harmless and will fade away, as the elderly of the parish pass on there will not be a younger generation to take their place.

Yours Truly,
The Woim


10 posted on 03/04/2008 1:47:46 PM PST by The Woim
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Sure, they’re dissident Catholics, but they are really harmless

Profaning and desecrating the Holy Eucharistic and the Mass is not harmless.

It is absolutely evil in the original, Luciferian sense of the word.

11 posted on 03/04/2008 1:52:09 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Nick Coleman, a columnist for the StarTribune and a fallen away cradle Catholic himself, has a column this morning on the most recent events at St Stephen's.

You can't read anything by Nick Coleman unless you have a strong stomach.

But similar changes are taking place across the archdiocese, which is getting new, conservative leadership from Co-adjutor Archbishop John Nienstedt, who will shortly succeed Archbishop Harry Flynn.

The more snippets I get of our new Archbishop, the more I like him. Flynn has had his neck stepped on by his managers more than once, and I think it was time long ago for him to retire.

Those good works will continue. But many of the good people who contributed their time, talents and resources to the $3 million-a-year social outreach of a historic, 119-year-old inner-city parish will not.

In the lump, I think the Catholic Church in the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul does decent work and has even under the watchful eye of Harry Flynn, who probably qualifies as a clown of the first order. I even think he has done better than average in the area of Catholic Church pedophiles. Still, if left to his own designs, you couldn't tell the difference between the Catholic Church and the Teletubbies.

I wish one of these characters who see themselves as "missionaries" would tell me why he or she can't do the same thing within the Catholic Church framework. The long and short of it is there are, I think, many ways to salvation, as in, "I am the way, the truth and the life..." The thing of it is is why can't "Catholic" missionaries do their work while following the rules of the Catholic Church? Another thing of it is is we can still do good works while being other than Catholic, just don't go around pretending to be Catholic.

12 posted on 03/04/2008 1:53:45 PM PST by stevem
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In the Lutheran church, anyone who thought the purpose of a Lenten service was to “enjoy’ himself would be pummeled with three day old sweet roles to within an inch of his life.


13 posted on 03/04/2008 1:53:56 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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Indeed. I see a lot of white, middle-class people in that moblet - I don’t see any of the poor and homeless in their “gathering place.”


14 posted on 03/04/2008 1:54:07 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Nothing a bunch of good honest prayer wouldn’t fix. Let’s hope this parish lands a Pastor who beleives in prayer and can teach it.


15 posted on 03/04/2008 1:56:59 PM PST by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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They look to be mostly gray and/or gay.

The good news is they won't be around much longer to inflict themselves on this fallen world.

16 posted on 03/04/2008 2:00:53 PM PST by Martin Tell ("It is the right, good old way you are in: keep in it.")
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Interesting ! Worse than my late wife’s (Epicopal) church on a really “progressive” day !


17 posted on 03/04/2008 2:24:20 PM PST by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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"...would be pummeled with three day old sweet roles to within an inch of his life."

Got that right. Whadd'ya think those Hot Cross Buns are for?!

18 posted on 03/04/2008 2:29:09 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love. S. Miller)
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To: NYer

what, no rainbow on the marquis?


19 posted on 03/04/2008 2:36:53 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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I’ve often wondered to myself if I would object aloud in such a case. I hope I never find out.


20 posted on 03/04/2008 2:38:30 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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