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To: right-wing agnostic

The ones who object are the old guys, who unfortunately were inflicted on us by Vatican II - not necessarily morally corrupt, but weak, silly men who couldn’t have gotten a job anywhere else and, after driving out the good ones, felt that they had their careers assured and even that the Church would last long enough for them to get their pensions. They thought Christianity was about soft left wing politics.

Our bishop used to go up to sprinkle blood on a military installation with a bunch of flaky sisters, and he hated the “new translation” and was one of the first to attack it. Fortunately we have a new bishop now, but the translation had nothing to do with the translation: it was all about allegiance to their idea of “Vatican II.”


17 posted on 07/03/2014 9:21:33 AM PDT by livius
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You perfectly described one old priest in a parish I moved away from. Father Dennis. He totally creeped me out. I was going to put my granddaughter in VBS there until I found out he was running it. Once when I went up to receive Communion he asked me for my name. I stood there until he gave up and gave me the host. He wanted to “personalize” it for me. After Mass I told him that I did not come up to the altar to have a personal connection with him but with my Lord. He was surprised. I’m guessing not very many people openly confronted him. He also even before 2011 played around with the words of consecration - I can’t remember now what he said but it was I guess in his mind more inclusive. Oh, and he always made a point of leaving out the word “men” in the profession of faith.


18 posted on 07/03/2014 9:30:29 AM PDT by Mercat
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