[Jim Noble]

To say that we are “in communion” with other Catholics is to profess that we believe what they believe

I've had plenty of experience with Evangelical churches and Catholic churches, and it is certainly true that there is MUCH more diversity of belief among Catholics than there is among Protestants.

The stream of dissent in American Catholic parishes is deep and wide, and it is often led by priests or, more commonly, religious sisters.

I once worshipped for five years or so at a suburban Boston parish with about 1200 people at Mass on Sunday. If they had been Evangelicals, there would have been so much shaking of dust off of sandals that they would have formed 50 new and different churches by the time I left.

It cracks me up every time a Catholic poster here declares that all Catholics, or even most Catholics, believe the same thing. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[JerryBlackwell]

It won’t be long before the RCC is downsized to just the true believers and the TLM. I believe this is what Pope BXVI meant when he said the church would be smaller but more vibrant.

[WriteOn]

That’s a mess. Yiu have to wonder where the bishop is...

[pgyanke]

[marshmallow]

The bitter dispute in this Irish parish is an extreme example of a sort of conflict that has become sadly familiar within Catholic communities. These conflicts erupted in the 1960s, peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, then subsided for a few decades. They have escalated again during the past three years, since the election of Pope Francis....

Phil wants to say it but can't quite bring himself to do so....yet.

Here ya go, Phil. Allow me...."....whose constant ridiculing and abuse of faithful Catholics, virulent anti-intellectualism and ongoing denigration of traditional Catholic moral teaching has given encouragement and comfort to dissidents within the Church as well as its enemies without and has contributed enormously to the current upheaval."

Glad I could help.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

The bitter dispute in this Irish parish is an extreme example of a sort of conflict that has become sadly familiar within Catholic communities.
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The “bitter dispute” is a reflection of the “bitter fruit” of VC-II.

[daniel1212]

“Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of the liturgy has totally disappeared,” wrote then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in The Spirit of the Liturgy.

But cordially responding to an impenitent proud proabortion prosodmite pol without rebuke, and allow such to have ecclesiastical funerals which praise them, is not sanctioning unholy applause?

[maddogtiger]

the Catholic church has been corrupted for centuries, but of late, not to the extent of Sodom.

[cherry]

I’m already rifted....