The other day I saw the local N.O. parish bulletin for Ash Wednesday. I could not find anything distinctly Roman Catholic in it. If I did not know, I could have easily mistaken it for a Lutheran or Episcopalian bulletin. The articles inside specifically spoke to "new ways of thanksgiving" instead of "old ways of penance". There was a piece on blessing food and of course, the term "our community" was referred to in place of Church, Faith, parish, etc. The Episcopalian Ash Wednesday letter I saw was slightly more Catholic.
The Christmas Day bulletin was equally bad. The One World Church is coming along nicely.
For an anecdote that illustrates the same point.
I was home sick from work early last week. So, I wound up watching the 1953 film "War of the Worlds" on American Movie Classics.
At one point, the hero is searching for his lady love and he realizes he'll find her in a Church. So, he goes searching through Churches.
At one point he goes into an old venerable stone Church and you see the stained glass and hear a hymn that I grew up hearing. It took me a few moments before I realized that it was a Protestant Church. It looked like any Novus Ordo Catholic parish looked in the 1970's when I was growing up.
A few moments later, he winds up in another Church. The table is not there, it is an altar, there is a communion rail, And you hear the priest in the back of the Church reciting the Rosary in Latin with the Children responding to the second half of the "Ave's" in Latin.
I thought to myself, "Even Hollywood in the 50's in a "B" movie could tell the differences in the religions that the Catholics of today cannot." Lex Orendi, Lex Credendi.
"The other day I saw the local N.O. parish bulletin for Ash Wednesday. I could not find anything distinctly Roman Catholic in it."
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