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To: JHavard
You post some of the kindest,most thoughtful original pieces on this thread and I truly enjoy and benefit from many of them.

Nonetheless,when you say:But watch how quick they bring back the Latin Mass.and make the priest turn his back on the people again,this is serious stuff and the Church is going to take a strong hand in ridding itself of this horrendous problem. you show a lack of knowledge about "powers and principalities" and the supernatural world.

If you viewed the world and the Triune God from a Catholic perspective you would realize that the influences of Satan and the devil just may account for many of these horrible cases of sexual abuse. And,if this is true and say 25% of these cases were perpetrated by possessed priests then a return to the Latin Mass and deemphasizing the worldly nature or personality of the priest,by turning him around,back to the congregation, would be a first step in reconnecting with our transcendent Triune God.

Catholics are saddened by this scandal and when it all falls out we will probably find a multitude of causes including ordaining homosexual priests and a group of bishops who have lost their faith. But this does not preclude supernatural influences and to intimate,as you did that this attempt to reconnect is silly and nonproductive detracts from your usual (more recent)thoughtful posts.

51,153 posted on 05/02/2003 12:14:09 AM PDT by saradippity
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To: saradippity
Back at you, very incitful and well put.
51,156 posted on 05/02/2003 4:08:21 AM PDT by ventana
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