Interesting! Thanks for posting. I hope he’s right. We’re engaged a long battle and we need all the real men we can get.
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Oh, I hope this is true! Almost every priest my children were exposed to growing up was very short, very thin, and very weak looking. One of them did magic tricks on the altar during his homilies! He later left the priesthood.
The one breath of fresh air was one big, burly priest who talked about playing football as a teen and would sometimes play kickball with the kids at recess. He showed them you could love sports, being healthy and strong, and be a great Catholic in this day and age. We need real men of faith.
Awesome picture.
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The Eastern Church, thank God, never encountered such problems. The reason: tradition. Once you let “popular” movements, whatever is in vogue, fads, etc. determine your standards, you will be skipping and jumping from one to another and neevr stay put. Let’s face it: Vatican II did away with tradition, or better yet with the Catholic culture. The Catholic Church re-invented itself and now it is trying to re-invent itself again. It may produce a new crop of “real” men for the season, but your nuns in pantsuits are not going away.
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and its meek-and-mild founder whose humiliation
You portray the Son of God as some sort of girly/man...Look at all the pictures you guys have of Jesus...Jesus far more resembles Boy George or Michael Jackson than Hulk Hogan...
But women are attracted to that...I'd say men don't want anything to do with a sissyfied man, whether he's God or a priest/pastor...
Jesus was a man's man...Not afraid to take on a group of people physically, not very mild and meek in his speech; no blonde haired, blue eyed effemite Son for God...