I'm trying to come up with a phrase to describe the phenomenon where when something is permitted it immediately becomes the norm; that certainly **will** happen here. ("Permission becomes prescription" "Default drift" "Norm creep"?)
"In some extraordinary circumstances" will equal "all the time" in the blink of an eye.
Edit: It's also clericalism to teach people that the things you need to do to be a good member of the laity is do more things priests do. (Extraordinary ministers, lay preaching, etc. etc. etc.)
What they are asking is for Rome to change Canon law for them.
Can. 767 §1. Among the forms of preaching, the homily, which is part of the liturgy itself and is reserved to a priest or deacon, is preeminent; in the homily the mysteries of faith and the norms of Christian life are to be explained from the sacred text during the course of the liturgical year.
I just have to assume that what we are talking about here is essentially "we want to have women preach at Mass" which seems to be just "if women can't be deacons we will let them do everything deacons do" - It leaves me more and more trying to honestly discern what the church is even proposing the role of the permanent deacon to be. Obviously the lived experience can be clear and beautiful in a healthy parish, but what is the core of what the diaconate is in the modern world at a theological level?
Also, as I have stated before, I really just want to know why. Why does this keep happening? Why do people who turned their entire lives over to God not see that as something worth preserving and handing on in a fully formed sense? Why does this always happen in Germany? As an American Catholic I literally don't understand. I always hear "church tax something something, demographics something something," but I am distressed by literally not understanding the cause! I keep the Church in Germany in my prayers. Prayers for clarity and charity, for understanding, and for the current believers in Germany and those yet unborn.
I'm trying to come up with a phrase to describe the phenomenon where when something is permitted it immediately becomes the norm; that certainly **will** happen here. ("Permission becomes prescription" "Default drift" "Norm creep"?)
"In some extraordinary circumstances" will equal "all the time" in the blink of an eye.
Edit: It's also clericalism to teach people that the things you need to do to be a good member of the laity is do more things priests do. (Extraordinary ministers, lay preaching, etc. etc. etc.)
Something like Slippery Slope comes to mind.
Slippery slope but with bishops at the top pushing people down it :D
The Sacrosanctum Concilium effect?
Sounds a good bit like Neuhaus' Law: "Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed."
What they are asking is for Rome to change Canon law for them.
Can. 767 §1. Among the forms of preaching, the homily, which is part of the liturgy itself and is reserved to a priest or deacon, is preeminent; in the homily the mysteries of faith and the norms of Christian life are to be explained from the sacred text during the course of the liturgical year.
I just have to assume that what we are talking about here is essentially "we want to have women preach at Mass" which seems to be just "if women can't be deacons we will let them do everything deacons do" - It leaves me more and more trying to honestly discern what the church is even proposing the role of the permanent deacon to be. Obviously the lived experience can be clear and beautiful in a healthy parish, but what is the core of what the diaconate is in the modern world at a theological level?
Also, as I have stated before, I really just want to know why. Why does this keep happening? Why do people who turned their entire lives over to God not see that as something worth preserving and handing on in a fully formed sense? Why does this always happen in Germany? As an American Catholic I literally don't understand. I always hear "church tax something something, demographics something something," but I am distressed by literally not understanding the cause! I keep the Church in Germany in my prayers. Prayers for clarity and charity, for understanding, and for the current believers in Germany and those yet unborn.
I believe Karl Barth had an article entitled simply Nein! We should be able to reuse that easily enough.