Ping
“When this inculturation does not take place, Christian life, and even more so the consecrated life, ends up with the oddest and most ridiculous Gnostic tendencies. We’ve seen this, for example, in the misuse of the liturgy. What is important is ideology rather than the reality of the people. This is not the Gospel.”
Thus always with Marxists. They know best what “the people” want or need (or should want if they know what’s good for them). It’s astonishing that the Church’s wrecking balls such as Bergoglio have been beating the same drum for 55 years as if their ideas were new. This garbage was already old hat by the time Dietrich von Hildebrand was rebutting it in “The Devastated Vineyard” (1973). The old mass has nothing to do with the “reality of the people” but the Novus Ordo does? Well, then why the hell has everyone exited in droves?
” How often do you count how many men or women religious are in my congregation, and calculate the decline. Survival is a temptation. It is good to renounce the criterion of numbers, “
LOL. Yep, exactly, Bergoglio, renounce “numbers” if your numbers suck. Can you imagine the CEO of any company not being fired for such idiocy? “Yes, sales, revenues and profits have massively declined under my business plan, but let’s not get hung up on numbers!” Try telling that to the shareholders.