I think we are going to see the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) lurch even farther to the left, even deeper into angry dissent now that they have to cope with and distinguish themselves with Crux.Posted on 09/16/2014 6:10:03 PM PDT by markomalley
I think we are going to see the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) lurch even farther to the left, even deeper into angry dissent now that they have to cope with and distinguish themselves with Crux.
I suspect Crux will wind up doing a better job of what Fishwrap has been doing.
Here is an example of angry edginess from Fishwrap. This ought bring in those readers!
Brian Cahill has a peevish piece in which he makes the claim that …
The Catholic church is on track to become a shrinking cult
Oh no! What will save us from this dire fate? Fishwap has an answer!
Let’s have a look.
Taking a break from his crusade against civil gay marriage, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is establishing an Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Star of the Sea Parish in the city. [So, the theme has been introduced.]
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But the Holy Spirit works in all sorts of strange and wonderful ways, and any effort to attract young adults — to keep them from leaving the church, should be praised, especially given the wholesale exodus of young Catholics over recent years. The Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project reports that four out of five Catholics who have left the church and haven’t joined another church did so before the age of 24.
One can point to an increasingly secular, materialistic culture as a factor in this exodus. But a closer look suggests that young Catholics are increasingly turned off by the attitudes and actions of some American bishops — the failure to address the child abuse scandal, the harsh opposition to civil gay marriage, the cluelessness of church teaching on contraception, and the refusal to consider women priests.
More recently, Catholic high school students, who can spot dishonesty and hypocrisy a mile away, are reacting with disillusion and disgust at how the church is treating some teachers in Catholic schools.
Bishop Michael Barber of Oakland, Calif., is attempting to coerce Catholic identity with a mandated morality pledge.
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Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis Schnurr upheld the firing of an assistant principal who expressed support for civil gay marriage on his blog.
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Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon fired a teacher at a Catholic high school from her job when the diocese read the obituary of her mother’s death and discovered the teacher was a lesbian. How many thoughtful Catholic high school students will stick around in a church that is capable of that kind of behavior?
St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt sent one of his priests to speak at a mandatory high school assembly just before Minnesota was to vote on an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment.
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If our church is left in the hands of these bishops, [Those mean dumb meanies!] we are on track to become a shrinking, increasingly irrelevant cult [Fishwrap's future] — not a source of appeal for thoughtful Catholic high school students.
Yep. That’s a great idea! Let’s adjust the Church’s Magisterium to the view of high school students! We need a Magisterium of Sophomores!
Bottom line: The Pope should declare that every gender-distinction in the Bible and the Magisterium has been wrong all along and Bishops should stop teaching about sexual morality. We really must start saying that sticking what you have into any place you want is fine, especially when it comes to same-sex sex. Hey! Even better…. why not just approve it! That would make us even more relevant, and hip, right? I can see the beginning of the Dogmatic Constitution from Vatican III: Quae olim dedecora esse dixit Ecclesia, nunc ….
Wide is the road and broad is the path that leads to destruction.
Better a small pure church, than a big one with a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.
Preach it sister! ;-)
Millenials typically do not know even rudimentary facts about the world. Best to maybe not kowtow to morons
I don’t think the mosque’s are going to be shrinking over not accepting gay sex .... they will grow in attendance.
If muslims get stronger by being more strict, why shouldn’t the same thing happen with Catholics?
Yet Tim Keller is taking the City by storm.
Check it out.
if we have to approve that, then we must also accept man on sheep.......
we've gone beyond insanity...
Since it is liberals stated goal to destroy religion, does it not follow that getting religions to liberalise is part of the plan to destroy them?
Dear Brian,
“...and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.”
...and neither shall you Brian.
Amen...
And this power continued until the Reformation.
And the Truth burst out again.
And it is still bursting out...because even protestant Churches have become corrupt and misguided.
Better a small pure church, than a big one with a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.
Hmmm, let me think about that for a minute..........YES, YES, YES. From the highest mountain, YES.
Our Church will cease to exist if we abandon Christ because people don’t like his message. People have never liked his message, they sure aren’t going to start now.
Sounds like a publication that should really stop pretending to have any relation to a church
To these people the Catholic Church is just another business or club competing for customers or members. They are not Catholics. They are not even heretics or Protestants. They are functioning atheists.
1.5% of the population, most of whom are not Catholic threaten to leave the Catholic church because they preach the truth.....O.K.. I guess
Might as well succumb to the “Real Truth” and become Mormon “The One True Church”...
that was, perhaps,the most inane and pointless statement that I have ever seen on the subject of protestant denominations falling away from true Christianity...
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