Also agreed.
However, it is our house and just as I would never presume to enter under your roof and tell you and Mrs Murphy the how and why of cleaning up that attic with bats in the belfry and the old gay uncle that you let live rent free (there it is again, by the same token we don’t need an outside to tell us some of the old bats in the belfry need to be let free.
You really have no idea the struggle that is going on right now for the soul of the Catholic Church. It is being fought in some way in every parish and every Diocese, and almost every faithful Catholic is in some way involved.
We do not discuss it openly especially in this forum, however, it is a battle in every sense of the word.
What you read about and what comes out in the papers is an amazingly narrow snapshot of the totality of the battle.
Regarding the ‘social justice’, ‘liberal voting Catholics’ and CINOs (Catholics In Name Only like Pelosi, Durbin and others) they are being slowly put surely dealt with.
You think the Vatican can just say something is so and it is changed overnight - not so. There is something very big happening as San Diego Catholic that has been found by the Vatican to be morally bankrupt, but it is still ongoing.
This is a fight that faithful Catholics will win because they have not defected, not rolled over and played dead and are not giving up on - no matter how bad it has gotten.
So long term outlook is very good, short term partly cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
BTW, every Catholic from all over could tell you tales of the fight that is going on in their parish and dioceses - but they wont. They are doggedly and determined to see it to the right end.
AMDG
But when an entity is constantly being promoted as the One True Church® to whom all are to submit, which is what is abundantly seen here (and i have thousands of posts regarding this), then it becomes an issue.
We do not discuss it openly especially in this forum,
Rather, they typically live in denial, dismissing those whom Rome counts and treats as members in life and in death.
Regarding the ‘social justice’, ‘liberal voting Catholics’ and CINOs (Catholics In Name Only like Pelosi, Durbin and others) they are being slowly put surely dealt with. The actual evidence has continually testified otherwise. .
Meanwhile you have RCs here who see it as their job to attack conservative evangelicals as their greatest enemy, including one blog pimp in particular. Of course, the feeling is mutual.
This is a fight that faithful Catholics will win because they have not defected, not rolled over and played dead and are not giving up on - no matter how bad it has gotten.
And the new pope is a cause of alarm to them. Many "defected," including former liberal RCs, to become conservative evangelicals