Well, I can’t speak for everyone who attends the TLM I attend, but of those I know personally (at least 100), NOT ONE is a liberal in any way. I wish I could say the same for all the N.O. Catholics I know. Still...even most N.O. Catholics of my acquaintance are quite conservative. Birds of a feather, I guess; I associate with those who think as I do.
That said, in November of 2008, my priest had this to say about Obama’s election: “Our country has suffered a catastrophe this week,” and then went on to give a homily that was truly astonishing in its intensity. I am only sorry I don’t have it on tape. It was both frightening and awe-inspiring.
Regards,
“Well, I can’t speak for everyone who attends the TLM I attend, but of those I know personally (at least 100), NOT ONE is a liberal in any way. I wish I could say the same for all the N.O. Catholics I know. Still...even most N.O. Catholics of my acquaintance are quite conservative. Birds of a feather, I guess; I associate with those who think as I do.”
I sense also as well those who attend the NO mass, most I know, are center-right. The ones who are CINOS, are more often than not, those “C and E” Catholics.
Oh to have heard a sermon like that at my NO parish. My pastor made his feelings known about 0, but in a much more milquetoast, indirect, and subdued way. And this was at one of the more conservative parishes in the diocese.
By contrast, the weekend of September 11, my NO pastor gave a sermon on forgiving our enemies. Meanwhile, at the TLM I attendted that week, the priest gave a detailed history of the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and how Western Europe was saved from being overrun by Mohammedans by the saintly heroics of Jan III Sobieski.