[Loyalist]

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.

[yendu bwam]

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.

A beautiful prayer. I often wonder how many of our priests are really more concerned about the next world, bringing souls to it, than about the affirmations so many seek in this one.

[ArrogantBustard]

The Church needed to become more intolerant of the world's evils around it, not less.

Let's hear a hearty "Amen" to that. The whole 1970s ethic of making the Mass, catechesis, religious garb, etc. "relevant to the modern world" was simply a cover for compromise with certain evil trends in popular culture. (Aesthetic nihilism and sexual license, for example)

[Domestic Church]

" The Church needed to become more intolerant of the world's evils around it, not less."

Amen! And right now the family, the domestic church, seems to be the only entity attempting to do this. I fear (because these scandals don't seem to awaken the hierarchy) there will be one heck of a celestial spanking and housecleaning before the Church starts tightening up. God's Will will be done and the gates of hell shall not prevail.