[St.Chuck]

What's a Neo?

[As you well know...]

I am a Catholic.

I have one question. If there were no USCCB, would you Teach, Rule and Sanctify with greater courage, force and conviction?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Do you have connections?

I vote for a seriously generous allowance of the Indult Traditional Mass. None of this, "get a petition with X # of names" or "nobody wants it" (yeah right), or placing it in the far regions of the diocese. I also vote for greater support and establishment of Traditional parishes (think Christ the King and FSSP).

I'll think about some others.

[RobbyS]

One question: Why so much experimentation by local bishops and priests after thirty years?

[LadyDoc]

1) ask why the broad who started the hate fest against Mel Gibson (BOYS) wasn't fired for a) pretending she and her friends represented the USSB and b) for being active in the anti church modernists who are undermining the church.

2) ask them to stop altergirls. The feminization of the mass where a priest is the center of attention and is surrounded by ladies and girls is embarassing. Mass is about worshipping Christ, not about a fun filled celebration of selfhood.

3) ask them to encourage Eucharistic adoration.

4) ask them to fire PC church bureacrats who undermine the average Catholic. This includes PC nuns who teach "liberation theology" and the "need" for "womenpriests" to our confirmation classes to the gay bureaucrats who allowed their pedophile friends to go to counselling and be declared "cured" over and over again...if you don't know who they are, I suggest you go to your nearby gay bar and look for familiar faces...

5) ask them to correct the nuns (like the Erie Benedictines) who oppose the pope openly in the press. Yes, I know that some of them are outside the local bishop's line of authority, but you can still criticize them publically and even remove them from serving in your diocesan organizations. Better a bible believing Baptist than a "nun" who is into "womanchurch".

6) Ask the bishops to get better press officers who can oppose the soundbites of the media.

7) Ask the bishops why they put out a lot of crap about helping the poor, but don't put out a lot about becoming holy.

8) stress personal responsibility and repentence. A lot of social problems would be solved if people followed the ten commandments in their own family.

9) Ask them why they have been silent on JP2's "theology of the body". They not only have been silent about the promicuity of their congregations, (out of a "don't be judgemental" attitude) but they fail to preach that the TRUE approach to sexuality leads to personal happiness and fulfillment...

10) ask them to speak English. I am sick and tired of preaching that I have trouble understanding, because they use jargon and PC cliches.

[old and tired]

I'm not sure what a Neo is, but since I'm not a Trad, I suppose I am Neo.

1)When is something concrete going to be done about the gays in the hierarchy and the priesthood? We've got Rigali coming to Philadelphia and he hasn't said whether he will continue to disallow gays at our seminary. 1a)When will the Church admit that it has never been a pedophilia crisis, but a chicken-hawking one? The young priests here are excellent and quite frankly I'm frightened that something will be done that will start the gays coming in.

2)How are the so called Catholic colleges going to be made to fall in line with Church teaching? Don't let them call themselves Catholic when they're not.

3)When is something going to be done about pro-abortion politicians calling themselves Catholic? There is a fine opportunity to make the Democrats look like the minions of Satan that they are by highlighting those who will not confirm practicing Catholics to federal judgeships.

4)Why are children not being taught in the Catholic schools that they should go to weekly confession?

5)Why is Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament not mandatory in every parish across the country?

I think a lot of the other problems would clear themselves up if #5 were mandated.

Like LadyDoc I am tired of Churchspeak and want to hear their answers in plain English.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Explain your asinine decision to select CINO unborn baby murdering advocate Leon Panetta to serve on the NRB?

[saradippity]

Ping for place.

[k omalley]

Ask them if they have lost their faith. Sometimes it sure seems that way.
Ask them to be more courageous in standing up for Church teaching and not just the politically correct issues.
Ask them why they turn a blind eye when some priests teach heresy.
Ask them to please use their influence to restore dignity, beauty and reverence to the liturgy, and yes, a more generous application of the indult would be greatly appreciated.
Tell them to please take a close look at what activities so called "Catholic" universities are engaged in. Do they have no concerns for the souls of the students and for the parents who have sacrificed tremendously, thinking that their sons and daughters would receive an authentic Catholic education?

I guess you could call me a neo with trad leanings.

[old and tired]

I think this is an important thread. For all we know, Boromeo may be Deal Hudson himself. Anyway, we know that prominent Catholics do check this board. (Remember the whole Popcek thing?) There is a good chance that these lists could make it to that meeting. It would be a shame if they got there without your input. Please put your ten cents in and encourage other Catholic Freepers as well.

[conservonator]

As ThomasMore posted somewhere, "Do the red, read the black, ". If nothing else, this would help eliminate some of the most annoying abuses at many N.O. Masses.

Also, petitioning for “Peace and Justice” each Sunday should be at least prefaced with a petition for “Faith and Obedience”. If our clergy focused more on faith and obedience, peace and justice would be natural fruits.

I know that the latter request isn’t something for the USCCB but it’s been bugging me for some time.

Bump for LadyDoc and Old and tired, great lists for the Bishops

[NYer]

I'll begin by pinging my list. This is one opportunity we don't want to miss out on.

[Loyalist]

PING

[RaginCajunTrad]

1. Ask for the resignation of Cardinal Mahoney.
2. Ask for the resignation of Matthew Clark.
3. Clean house in the seminaries and "Catholic" universities.

[Desdemona]

I've got one:

Excellencies, why does the USCCB have a totally separate fund-raising unit from the rest of the dioceses. I mean, so the USCCB can have it's own pot of $$$$ that seems to just diappear into thin air. AND please, publish a list of the donors who contribute more than $10,000. (that should be an interesting list)

[Desdemona]

I have another one:

Why is it, that people who spend countless hours perfecting art such as music, sculpture, painting, etc., in the great tradition (unparalled anywhere) of giving voice and form to God's glory and greatness are not commissioned to employ their talents to encourage and feed the souls of God's people here on earth.

Oops, forgot who the target was.

Why is the music and art so bad and why is this allowed to continue?

[Salvation]

why aren't some of the localities following the new GIRM?

And what are you doing to remedy that situation?
Unannounced visits?
Sactions? Removals?
Stern Warnings?
Educating the People of the Church on what a proper Mass Rite really is?

[Salvation]

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[sinkspur]

1) What concrete steps will you (the USCCB) take to determine why Catholic men are not entering the seminaries in sufficient numbers to replace those priests who are retiring? Determine why they're not attracted to the priesthood. The answers will lead you to the solutions.

2) What concrete steps will you (the USCCB) take to evangelize the Catholic faithful? The vast majority of Catholics are unchurched; they approach the Catholic community for the sacramental moments (baptism, first Eucharist, confirmation, matrimony), but do not participate on a weekly or even a monthly basis.

3) What concrete steps will you (the USCCB) take to revitalize the prayer life of the clergy, so that they can truly be the inspiration to their people that their people are hungering for?

4) What concrete steps will you (the USCCB) take to improve homiletics training in the seminaries, and insist on an ongoing program of continuing development of public speaking skills? This goes hand-in-hand with the vital prayer life (in #3), but a prayerful priest without the ability to connect with the congregation will not be a confident preacher.

5)Finally, can you guarantee that the accountability standards put in place to deal with clerical sexual abuse will remain? And, will you broaden those standards to encompass diocesan and parish finances, and decisions made by bishops and priests that are not matters of faith and morals?

[Notwithstanding]

Ask them why concerned lay people are extremely conversant with new encyclicals the minute they are published, yet 98% of the priests have no clue as to what this pope has added to magisterial teaching (save for bitching about sexism and sex).