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Jan 11, 2022Liked by JD Flynn

What’s with “folks”. ??

Is not the plural of folk folk ??

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by JD Flynn

Looking for the Porky Pig "a dat a dat dats all folks" gif, not available here

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The response to Bishop Cupich is indicative of the incivility in the church today. Hope for the synod diminishes in my life each day. Our diocese has made what appears to be a false claim by your map of engagement with our Holy Fathers wishes. We have a Bishop who appears to be unable to lead and has surrounded himself very intentionally with several priests who enable this. Several of us have volunteered to assist with the synod since the Summer. Not one word uttered in our parish,one of the largest in the country. Looks like “ in your face” to so many of us.Laity are speaking up but how do you work with folks who are working against you? Our US bishops will need to check the red hats and Don some humility for any real change to take place.Jane Francisco

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You are doing important work for the life of the church-be assured of my prayers for your success!

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We are kidding whom? The Vatican has turned into a circus on the very site of Circus Maximus.

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"Divine Decision" used to be called "The Tribunal" -- I used to work in the building where all that was filmed! It's fun to see it again!

RE: booing Cardinal Cupich -- booing bishops is actually not unusual, historically speaking. We have a conclave because Romans got tired of waiting around and locked all the cardinals up, delivering less food each day, until they elected a pope. Bishops and their people have often had contentious relationships. Chicago is a corrupt, far-left city that has some of the strictest Covid regulations in the entire country, a soaring murder rate, and a lot of unrest -- not to mention some serious recent church and Catholic school closings/consolidations. If some of the people living there really don't want to listen to the cardinal give them platitudes, I don't think it should surprise anyone.

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A useful read, as always. He's not in the Calendar but St H. remains in the 2004 Martyrology, and a Mass in his name _could_ be celebrated today, and indeed he continues to be commemorated in the Traditional Rite.

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well dang, now I'm craving cotton candy at a Vatican circus performance

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Hard to know if those booing in the crowd have tried to reach out to the bishop privately, then maybe more openly, and now the only way they can communicate with their shepherd is to boo him in public. I feel our bishops are way too busy with administrative junk to lead their flocks like they should (and I'm sure like many of them want to). I know many people (not in Chicago) who have tried reaching out to their bishop with absolutely no reply. It's really disheartening that the faithful can't even communicate with their bishop. I'm in no way saying booing is a good thing but if they've tried reaching out and not getting a reply, then not sure what they should do. I'm sure writing a letter to the Vatican isn't really going to accomplish anything either; and who even really knows how to do that?

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