Announcing the Catholic Freeper Locator List

June 14, 2002 | Romulus

[Romulus]

Yesterday's thread on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Summer Plenary Session. turned up a lot of Catholic FReepers suggesting that it's time for the faithful laity to get more visible and active in pressing for a restoration of right order in the Church. To that end, I've decided to develop and maintain a list of Catholic FReepers, sorted by state, as a resource for future activism. Some of us will wish to collaborate on future projects; others may simply find the list handy for purposes of fellowship. If you want to be on this list, please post your state (or overseas country) on this thread. I'll collate whatever comes in, and Askel5 will post the results on the ConSpiratio web site.

In posting your FR handle and location, you're not volunteering for anything except the chance of being contacted in the future. Whatever activism you then undertake is entirely up to you. For the record, I have no specific plan for this list, nor am I aware of anyone else's. It seems like something that needs to be done, however, and I'll wager the very existence of a good list will generate fruitful ideas.

If you prefer not to post your location, please bump the thread anyway. Thanks!

[Siobhan]

God bless you and your faithful parish!!!

[Atticus]

New Jersey. Diocese of Paterson.

[Aquinasfan]

Corpus Christi University Parish Church, Toledo, OH

No, that's the bridge of the Enterprise.

[k omalley]

Wheeling-Charleston West Virginia

[a history buff]

Chartres has a labyrinthe as well. It's a metaphor for our pilgrimage in this world.

[Siobhan]

The one in Chartres is not around the Altar and it is nothing more than floor decoration and has only begun to be "used" by New Age types in the last part of the twentieth century. The same people on the labyrinth bandwagon are enamored of enneagrams and other such trifles. You want a journey with God? Go on an Ignation 30 day retreat.

[a history buff]

I'd love the 30 days deal. Medieval French cathedrals are chockful of allegories. Look at the other decorations.

[sweetliberty]

You're missing out on some great opportunities if you're not following some of these threads.

[Askel5]

Well, if you need any help collating, let me know. Looks like we've a web of sorts with which to yank some chains.

Good deal. Hope to have the nexus up shortly.

[Romulus]

Ah, there you are. I don't need help collating, but I want your guidance about format. I envision a database consisting of FR names, dioceses, states, and links to FR profile pages and FReepmail, thus:

Louisiana
Archdiocese of New Orleans
Romulus, FR Profile Page; FReepmail Link

Comments?

[tiki]

Yes, he was referring to him. Our former priest was a past abuser. He went through 10 yrs of treatment and as far as anyone knows he has never offended again in the past 25 yrs. Our bishop, knowing this, assigned him to our parish at the end of '98 because Bishop Hubbard assured him that the priest was fine. And in reality he did behave. I do imagine that if Hubbard is fighting against zero tolerance for past abuse it is probably because of this priest.

If you are a "modernist"
NO!
and draw spiritual inspiration from the contemporary view that girls should serve at the altar,
No, but there are no Catholic Churches within 100 miles where girls aren't serving.
support the notion of female ordination,
Absolutely not
enjoy sitting through the consecration of the eucharist,
Thank God, we kneel.
prefer liturgical banners to statues, No
find solace in a bare cross
Heaven's NO!
and support the notion of a homosexual priesthood,
More than absolutely not.
then you would feel right at home in the Albany diocese.
I'm glad I live in New Mexico:-}

I think our bishop runs pretty much in the middle, but I could be wrong, I don't know him well.

[NYer]

I think our bishop runs pretty much in the middle, but I could be wrong, I don't know him well.

Perhaps the following article that I just posted will help claify your bishop's stance. Hubbard played a key role in reversing the zero tolerance policy at the USCCB.

As bishops' talks end, scandal's effects linger

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Bewitched. Bothered. And bewildered.

In Maine.

[Nora]

St. John Vianney parish, Diocese of Nashville (TN)

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

...I would also suggest that pressing for a restoration of the right orderin the American Church is a waste of effort. That Church has embraced the surrounding culture to such a degree that restoration is a pipe dream. Rather like envisioning the restoration of a gothic cathedral out of the World Trade Towers.

I'm wondering if we shouldn't consider a complete excavation.

[redhead]

Montgomery, Minn. Archbishop Harry Flynn

[oremus]

(BARF ALERT) **Diocese of Albany NY** (BARF ALERT)

[patent]

Chartres has a labyrinthe as well. It's a metaphor for our pilgrimage in this world.

I could be wrong but I believe the Chartres labyrinthe was made as a substitute for the pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the days when pligrimaging in that direction usually cost you your head. So they walked the labyrinthe instead.

patent

[a history buff]

Better to seek shells than palms, sometimes.

[BlessedBeGod]

Illinois -- the Archdiocese of Chicago

(but I'm tempted to move to the Diocese of Rockford).