You're wrong on a couple points...These statements come from many, many Catholic sources...
And no one parlay them into some extravagant nonsense...We post 'em as we see 'em...
These priests are responsible for teaching (who knows) how many innocent people out there looking for God...
You guys don't seem to object too loudly what these priests teach...But you sure make the noise when we bring it out in the open...What's up with that???
Define "Catholic Sources".
We post 'em as we see 'em...
That is rarely the case. In almost every case, I dare say, some comment or interpretation is made, usually as though it were a necessary conclusion from the excerpt quoted, when it is, in fact, the worst possible construction that could be placed on the words.
These priests are responsible for teaching (who knows) how many innocent people out there looking for God...
In the style of church building developed after the Reformation, the so-called "auditory" style, the focus of the Church was on the preacher, rather than on Christ. The preacher became the source of right interpretation of the Gospel, and often his tenure was based on whether his interpretatioon found acceptance in the congregation. This continues in many Protestant assemblies to this day.
By contrast, the preacher, though he does some teaching and preaching, is NOT, among us, considered the font of wisdom the average Protestant cleric is expected to be. He is to attempt to live a holy life and to assist in the fomration of the congregation. But we do NOT look to our clergy for teaching, and I have cheerfully ignored many a ferociously awful homily. I have found in the Catholic Church far greater freedom to follow my own theological and spiritual pursuits. it is certainly a blessing when one finds a pastor who is a good preacher, sound in doctrine and effective in its presentation. But it is not an expectation.
You guys don't seem to object too loudly what these priests teach..
You base this on what? I routinely tackle clergy, if we both have the time, on questions or disagreements I may have with what they said or the way they said it. We often write our bishops to complain or (less often) to commend a priest, and his teaching is one of the things we complain about, if it is heterodox. I complained long and loud about a deacon who was teaching a doctrine expressly condemned in an encyclical.
You may not be familiar with the experience of being a Catholic parishioner and may have formed some ideas which are out of touch with reality.