All that is wrong, right there…
Posted on 08/14/2024 4:12:45 PM PDT by ebb tide
All that is wrong, right there…
The decline in religious vocation is not complex at all. In fact, the very article that tries to make excuses also goes at the root of the problem, and the problem is very simple: no Catholicism, no vocations.
If the Church (in Argentina, and everywhere else) presents Herself as a leftist NGO promoting “social justice”, of course vocations will suffer, because Catholics do not have the vocation to become leftist social workers promoting social justice. You know who might have this kind of “vocation”? Homosexuals looking for a virtue-signalling job with many “men” around, or pedophiles looking to get near children undisturbed, that’s who. I even suspect one particular guy, who then happened to make an excellent career, of having discovered his “vocation” after he discovered other tendencies that were, in my younger years, not spoken about.
It is, undoubtedly, true that the world has become more prosperous, but prosperity is not linked to lack of vocations. As I have written several times here, some of the historically most prosperous regions also had a lot of vocations. In Germany, or in the Netherlands, traditionally prosperous societies have always been accompanied by robust religiosity, until V II ruined everything for everybody. In the very United States, we have traditionally seen a very strong religious spirit develop amidst unprecedented wealth. Even within your own family or village, it really can’t be said that the wealthy forget God and the poor don’t. Many poor people become little resentful communist whiners, and many rich people become more religious as they become more prosperous.
The answer to the crisis of vocations has one word: Catholicism.
It is ironic that the article would examine the vocation crisis in Argentina and identify as causes the political leftism, the social grievance attitude, and the lack of Catholic content. The ingloriously reigning Pope is quite the incarnation of all three. How a guy with that attitude can promote vocations is impossible to fathom.
Catholic magazines, of all degrees of Catholicism, keep dancing around the elephant in the room: the lack of proper Catholic content.
You can make an experiment. Firstly, make some mental note, after Mass, of the main points of the V II homily you just heard. Then go home, search the YouTube channel of the SSPX in your Country, and listen to one (not two, or three: one) homily of them. You will be shocked at the richness and spiritual nourishing of the SSPX priest, when compared to the sugary water you are made to drink every Sunday. And let’s hope that, in church, you did not have to endure the applause, and the invitation to these and those to “stand up” and be applauded, or the horrible hymns that seem to have been composed to make you lose whatever faith you had.
The antidote is very simple, and even the linked article says it very plainly. There is no need for special recipes, not even for great saints (though they would help, a lot). It’s just about shutting up the leftist politicians, the social justice warriors, and the queers, and everything will be fine again, in a fairly short time.
Ping
If the office doesn’t mean anything,and they are just becoming social workers, why would a candidate bother?
Vat II is why 18,000 priests have left the ministry. Reverse Vat II, reinstate the Traditional Church Christ started and souls will be saved and the Church will thrive.
One of the (many) travesties of the Bergoglio papacy is that the College of Cardinals handed the keys to a prelate whose archdiocese was doing very poorly. By any relevant metric (vocations, mass attendance, sacramental participation, infant baptism), the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires was in pretty disastrous shape. And thus it should be surprising to precisely no one that Bergoglio has done (and not done) for the universal Church what he did (and didn’t do) for his home diocese. It’s really unprecedented when you think about it. I’m sure the Archdiocese of Krakow was in healthy shape when JP2 was elected. Heck, even the Archdiocese of Munich was probably pretty solid when Ratzinger left in 1981.
Exactly right!
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Would any other organization in the world operate like this?
Imagine this conversation at the Wal Mart board meeting...
“Gentlemen, we need a new CEO here at Wal-Mart.”
“Oh, I see. Well, among our biggest stores, what’s the worst performer in terms of sales, profits, employee retention, shoplifting etc.?”
“That would be Store No. 653 in Baton Rouge, sir.”
“Who’s the manager there?”
“A man named Eddie Snooks, sir.”
“There you go! Eddie Snooks should be our new CEO!”
And he said that with pride, which he is full of.
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