To: Alberta's Child
In response to V2, Graham Greene predicted, tongue in cheek, that (I paraphrase) "The Church in fifty years will have a congregation of 300,000 with a Philippino as Pope in Jerusalem". Cynical, of course, but the actual statistics are alarming. A return to Trent is the only way to stem the tide of post modernism that is dooming Catholicism. V2, like our own Great Society, has failed miserably, achieving the dead opposite of its intended purpose.
To: Dionysius
Remember this phrase from the Universal Prayer of Clement XI:
Fill my heart with tender affection for Thy goodness, a hatred for my faults, a love for my neighbour, and a contempt for the world.
The walls which the Church raised up against Protestantism in the 16th century needed to be raised higher against far more poisonous ideologies in the 20th century, not lowered. The Church needed to become more intolerant of the world's evils around it, not less.
44 posted on
12/11/2002 8:07:04 AM PST by
Loyalist
To: Dionysius
A return to Trent is the only way to stem the tide of post modernism that is dooming Catholicism. V2, like our own Great Society, has failed miserably, achieving the dead opposite of its intended purpose.Amen! Amen!!!
71 posted on
12/11/2002 8:48:44 AM PST by
Zviadist
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