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To: Poe White Trash
"If Michael S. Rose's book is any indication"

The problem is cultural, not religious. Rose does not indict the Church, but identifies and condemns the outside influences that is harming it. From the editors notes:

Nor is this problem restricted to Catholics! The assault on Christian orthodoxy and masculine authority - as well as the aggressive promotion of the gay agenda - that Rose documents in this book are proceeding apace in Protestant denominations too. That makes Goodbye, Good Men essential reading not only for Catholics who want to save their Church, but for everyone who wants to defend Christianity from assault by those who would subvert its message from within.

Rose sees the Church as actively addressing the problem in his book; Priest: Portraits of Ten Good Men Serving the Church Today. Rose goes on to paint a very positive picture of Pope Benedict XVI in Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger and

333 posted on 03/02/2010 4:30:52 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
The problem is cultural, not religious...

Ah, so the problem is not the RCC's religion but the RCC's culture. It looks to me like you're playing a shell game here.

... Rose does not indict the Church, but identifies and condemns the outside influences that is harming it.

From what I've read, Rose is optimistic about the future and has high hopes that BXVI will be able to clean out the Augean stables that is the RCC in America. However, the fact that moral rot is present means that the influence is not only outside, it is inside (and has been for a long time). Or are you claiming that the RCC is without sin? I imagine that a lot of molested boys and girls would take issue with that claim.

From the editors notes...

From what I can see, the "assault from without" by antinomianism and nihilism and sin -- of course, such things were NEVER found within the RCC (or any other communion) before 1950...or 1789...or... -- has been successful, and what we're seeing now is a more visible counteroffensive by traditionalists. WITHIN the RCC. I wish the traditionalists success, but if they continue to rely upon just making new rules and protocols, and by scapegoating "culture" and conspiracies, I'm not optimistic about what the results might be.

357 posted on 03/03/2010 4:54:37 AM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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