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To: jrherreid
Do the bigots really think that Catholics were in the churches on Easter because of the priests?

This is the key point, and something that most people don't understand about Catholics. Priests are incidental to the Catholic Church. Not that they are not valuable, but it doesn't matter WHO the priest is. They are interchangeable. (I love my two parish priests and would miss them dearly if they left, but that's beside the point.) The Catholic Mass is about JESUS CHRIST. The priest is the instrument by which the bread and wine are turned into the body and blood of Jesus. God turns the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus; the priest celebrates the Holy Eucharist with the flock.

Many Protestant churches -- I will not say all, because I don't have knowledge on all -- but many to revolve around a particularly charismatic, or smart, or attractive, or saintly minister. Without the minister, the church disappears or weakens. In the Catholic Church, changing priests doesn't take away from the Mass, the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ.

I think that is worth remembering, particularly us Catholics who might feel betrayed by the actions of a few wayward and sinful priests.

God bless.

27 posted on 04/15/2002 10:51:15 PM PDT by Gophack
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To: Gophack
The problem is that I fear it is not just a FEW and that the bishops are not minding the store or are afraid to tackle the homosexual lobby. IAC, what I dislike about most of the recent liturgical reforms is that they seem to want to make the priest a "star', like the evangelical preachers.
34 posted on 04/16/2002 10:43:53 AM PDT by RobbyS
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