Just the sort of fellow likely to give misleading 'Translations' of phrases from the synod working document. N'est pas?
Any churches rebelling against tradition aren't REALLY part of the church anyway, they're rebelling, they're PROTESTING against the Catholic doctrine, that gives a good indication of where they can go.
Starting the first week in October, a synod of Catholic bishops from around the world will meet in Rome to plot the future of the church under Ratzinger's leadership.
Love that 'plot'. I guess he thinks every bishop meekly toes the line. And it's 'Ratzinger' not Pope Benedict; that speaks volumes.
He still condemns the use of condoms to fight AIDS in Africa.
Bishop Desmond Tutu loves them. No one ever says anything about what he thinks. It's almost as if what the pope says actually matters.
If he's an anachronistic stick-in-the-mud as the article seems to imply: Who cares what he thinks? Unless it actually matters.
This so-called Catholic writer's chamber pot runneth over.
Well, this piece is so negative, it's hard to tell how accurate it is. But if this Pope returns the Latin Mass, gets rid of the horrid felt banners, gets the blue jean wearing "attendants" off the alter, and returns the appearance of the church to the way it should be, I will hang his picture in my home and revere him for all time.
Just the sort of fellow likely to give misleading 'Translations' of phrases from the synod working document. N'est pas?
Lose the guitars, flutes and drums, boys!
Death to the "folk music" mass!!!!
My parish has at least 40 "musicians" who participate in mass each week................
I guess they're going to have to go back to using their envelopes.....................
I guess any journalist with ethics and competence has a hard time competing with the bottom-feeders.
And after consideration, it will probably be left up to the local ordinaries to implement some watered down version of whatever is accepted for use in each country.
Also read in another article that Ratzinger is considering limited decentralization of power. That's good for negotiations with the Orthodox but bad news for catholics under liberal bishops.
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A private, Catholic, coeducational, residential, comprehensive university...
The Journalism professors at John Paul the Great Catholic University will actually be Catholic.
Imagine that!
This is wrong on so many levels, it's hard to know where to begin.
This guy must be a screaming lib pseudo-Catholic along the lines of Kerry, Teddy K. and the Liturgical Dance Team.
It did not.
Oh Gosh there is SO much nonesense this fellow spouts, where to begin?
later read/pingout?
The use of lay lectors, lay eucharistic ministers, etc. was sold to us as "empowering" the laity. Wrong! It denigrated the laity. It suggested that the only way to "be somebody" in the Church was to prance around the altar like a little priest.
The role of the priest is to bring Christ into the world. The role of the laity is to take Christ into the world. We the laity are fulfilling our role when we act in the world to bring Christian principles to bear on business, politics, and and everything else connected with the world.
I just love it when the libs begin to squeal and wet their pants when things begin to straighten up in the Church...
I read something recently about this pope condemning, nicely,
foi gras. I thought it was very well-said.
This Pope is trying hopefully to do the JOB he was chosen to do! SAVE SOULS not please the people,and their wims! It is a JOB noone would try to do but him I think today ,with modernism,lack of all virtues(whats that?) ,religious of every kind coming and going,Faith among Catholic twisted due to the Church Changes of Vatican ll,immorality amoung the priests,religious and people must come to a stop somewhere,hopefully BEFORE each SOUL reaches the Judgements of GOD..
Love and Knowledge of GOD and His Laws must come to each person as Christ intended when He Made St. Peter the First Pope and started HIS CHURCH. Africa Needs True Catholism,no know GOD ,to FEAR HELL ,not anything else! Wake Up!
It must all go back to tradition,this Pope has seen the time it was and the times it is..and he knows the JOB.
This Pope is trying hopefully to do the JOB he was chosen to do! SAVE SOULS not please the people,and their wims! It is a JOB noone would try to do but him I think today ,with modernism,lack of all virtues(whats that?) ,religious of every kind coming and going,Faith among Catholic twisted due to the Church Changes of Vatican ll,immorality amoung the priests,religious and people must come to a stop somewhere,hopefully BEFORE each SOUL reaches the Judgements of GOD..
love and Knowledge of GOD and His Laws must come to each person as Christ intended when He Made St. Peter the First Pope and started HIS CHURCH. Africa Needs True Catholism,TO know GOD ,to FEAR HELL ,not anything else! Wake Up!
No bias here.
My experience is that the Latin mass was perfectly undestood by most Catholics, and not many, but most were perfectly comfortable with it.
Indeed, its transformation into "more pedestrian" form had a major role is my drifting from the faith, so to speak.
If I wanted hippy ceremony, I would have joined a commune.