[Slyfox]

“Liberal” Catholics are Catholics on their way out the door.

The best visual of this for me was a trip to the Northwest Pacific. We attended 10:00 Mass and I noted as we entered that there seemed to be no other children in the entire church except for mine. By the time Mass started no other children had arrived.

Then I noticed six grey-headed people at the front of the church fixing to play their guitars. I hate guitar Masses. They played various updated versions of Kumbiya.

I got the feeling that this particular church did not see many children at what is in most Catholic Churches is the most populous Mass of the week, when a couple of the grey-headed rockers greeted us as we left the church remarking how nice it was to see our children.

That is the legacy of liberal Catholics who have voted for every pro-abort they could get their hands on.

[defconw]

Interesting article. Do we stay or go? I have been thinking about this for a long time. (I mean in politics not the church).

My spiritual life would certainly be more serene were I to disengage from politics. But do I have an obligation to stay engaged? Debating within myself.

Thanks for the article.

[Alex Murphy]

As one of the participants at the seminar argued, there really is not, despite the media, a major debate between “liberal” and “conservative” American Catholics. There is indeed a political debate between liberals and conservatives, but it does not map on to any important debate within the American Church. “Liberal” Catholics are Catholics on their way out the door. Their children will be either non-Catholic or else serious Catholic believers. “Liberal” Catholicism is like “liberal” Protestantism: a way station to something else. At best, it will survive as a cultural inflection; it has no chance of being a living faith.

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