Let me remind you of the joke about Vatican II:
“The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.”
I think there’s an awful lot to like in the documents of VAT2. But ... well, as someone with aesthetic pretensions, I’ve noted that a lot of Catholics seemed to think that Vat2 required tawdry modern art and music and cast out all that was beautiful.
And I know some older Catholics who seem to think that Vat2 authorized a do your own thing Xtianity without imposing the responsibilities of, you know, prayer, thought, and Scripture study.
Against THAT almost all complaints are and ought to be licit.
The hard core Latin Mass and “it’s been downhill ever since Trent” Catholics DO strike me as vey similar to some Protestants in preferring their notions before the obedience proper to the laity.
The current Pope is ... difficult. So some Catholics are failing the test. Me, I watch and pray.
When the going gets tough, the tough get praying. And when this papcpacy is over, maybe some of the noisiest dissenters will see that there’s a problem with trumpeting docility to JP2 and BenXVI, and then dissing Francis.
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In the meantime, most of us should be working and praying together.
If I said that your brethren would object. But the one basic duty of Catholics is to follow their pastors as docile sheep, while the church began in dissent by hearts obedient to Scriptural Truths, which is what true Prots are to have, which requires dissent from Rome .
And when this papcpacy is over, maybe some of the noisiest dissenters will see that theres a problem with trumpeting docility to JP2 and BenXVI, and then dissing Francis.
I highly doubt it. Then will go back to telling us we must not ascertain the validity of teaching by examination of it by Scripture, while they ascertain the validity of teaching based upon their judgment of what historical Catholic teaching says, rather than how V2 and such manifestly interprets it.