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Ping

[Caipirabob]

I guess the left is considered that a Christian may end up leading the church?

[Vermont Lt]

I am seriously curious: Why is the Latin Mass so important? I know it’s traditional, but is that the only reason? Why wouldn’t you want congregants understanding what is said?

Again, I don’t understand and I am hoping someone could explain it to me.

Thanks in advance.

[EBH]

2 Timothy

3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

[Alberta's Child]

I was privy to a fascinating conversation a few years ago with someone who is a "Catholic insider" in high places in Rome. It doesn't bode well for the future except that it pretty much clarifies what we are up against -- in both the Catholic Church and the world at large.

His synopsis of the state of the Church -- and keep in mind this man says this without a trace of anger or hysteria -- is this:

1. The Catholic clergy is filled with homosexuals.

2. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church is filled with bishops and cardinals who don't even believe in God, let alone the basic precepts of the Catholic Faith.

I agree with his underlying sentiment about where things are headed. Give it another few decades, and the Traditional Latin Mass communities scattered around the world will be the only thing left of the Catholic Church. It will be stronger than ever, but very small.