[kjvail]

When the "faith" we practice is utterly self-referential, it's nothing more than self-worship. Self-absorption is the dominant secular value, and I'm not surprised to read that your son too is slurping it up. But the Church's job is to rescue us from that prison, not to affirm it.

Did you catch Arroyo's interview with then Cardinal Ratzinger on EWTN that they played after his election yesterday? It was done about 18 months ago and is the only existing recorded interview with the Cardinal in the English language.

Anywas he said almost exactly the same thing that you are saying above. I believe his words were "the Mass is where we come to meet the transcendent God" He talked about the "reform of the reform" specificially to re-sacralize the mass that had been distorted after VII into some type of "communal expression".

I am very hopeful for what Benedict XVI may accomplish. The sad fact is tho his effectiveness will be limited until he can begin to name some Bishops.

[Romulus]

he said almost exactly the same thing that you are saying above

Is he stealing my material again?

[Romulus]

his effectiveness will be limited until he can begin to name some Bishops.

Cardinals Egan, McCarrick, and Keeler are all up for retirement in the next 2 years.