McCarrick. There are hard questions, but don't we have to ask them? Which current bishops did he choose/recommend for their jobs, and why did he pick them, and what are the attitudes that those bishops are taking towards preventing abuse, reforming the culture of clericalism that facilitates it, and upholding the Church's teachings and disciplines about chastity, especially for clerics?
The point is not (necessarily) that any individual bishop should not have been appointed. But it is very much that McCarrick probably had a terrible influence on the overall culture of the episcopate. In fact, although I hope I am wrong, I feel like his influence was a generational setback in terms of healing the relationship between the American episcopate and laity.
JD, I am always humbled when I read your words on suffering and hope. You are a good man and it sounds like you speak from experience. Thank you for the valuable work of the Pillar and for seeking lasting reform in the Church that I love.
It's amazing to me that some people take the position that a person can discern in conscience to violate the moral law, but even a bishop can't discern in conscience to allow his flock to pray the ancient Mass.
Some advice, please. Larry, my pet lobster, likes to come to the empty Church with me to meditate, but the last few days have been punishing with all the heat. I’ve reverted to plonking him in the baptismal font to keep him cool. No one else is around so he’s harmless but now I’m worried I’ve contravened some important liturgical rubric and both Larry and I will boil in Hell.
Totally off subject, but thanks for the wintery you tubes. It is a real nice way to keep cool on what will be a hot humid day with heat indexes of 106-110 F.
JD Flynn: If I remember correctly from a year ago. You had data mined more than just the Monsignor’s cell phone. Please refresh our memories for as I recall, you had a number of hits from the Vatican too. What ever happened to them? Please don’t be bought out, expose it all!
JD, Catholics and people of good will are blessed to have you teaching us that even in the darkest of times, there is hope. Your article on Columbine is but one example//. God bless you!
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Unless people, including priests, are afraid of hell, whether the eternal fire or the hell of having an article about their sins, there will not be a beginning of wisdom. It sounds so profound to say that we should not be motivated by hell, but that is the proper beginning of wisdom.
Recently someone, a Catholic, began taking instructions at an Orthodox Church. He said the Faith was being "chipped away" by Rome, theologians and weak bishops. I completely agree.
As much as I prefer Orthodox worship, discipline and practice, they have their own big problems; jurisdictionalism, phyletism, inconsistency in applying the canons and the list goes on. The Greeks are soft on abortion, most jurisdictions are soft on artificial contraception, They are busy trying to snatch sheep from other jurisdictions, (the so called Slavic Vicariate) against the canons. The Russian Church is trying to destroy the Ukrainian Churches and the Patriarch of Moscow, that puppet of Putin is blessing it all. The Georgians and others are rebaptizing converts.
I see going to Orthodoxy as trading one particular set of problems for other ones.
Please do not suggest the Eastern Catholic Churches; these Churches are slaves of Rome and an attempt as a "third way" between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The Unia has failed
THank you all for your faithfulness and reporting.
I'm always inspired by that line in the Gospels: Go and try sincerely to pursue a line of conduct in keeping with the given directives.
McCarrick. There are hard questions, but don't we have to ask them? Which current bishops did he choose/recommend for their jobs, and why did he pick them, and what are the attitudes that those bishops are taking towards preventing abuse, reforming the culture of clericalism that facilitates it, and upholding the Church's teachings and disciplines about chastity, especially for clerics?
The point is not (necessarily) that any individual bishop should not have been appointed. But it is very much that McCarrick probably had a terrible influence on the overall culture of the episcopate. In fact, although I hope I am wrong, I feel like his influence was a generational setback in terms of healing the relationship between the American episcopate and laity.
JD, I am always humbled when I read your words on suffering and hope. You are a good man and it sounds like you speak from experience. Thank you for the valuable work of the Pillar and for seeking lasting reform in the Church that I love.
It's amazing to me that some people take the position that a person can discern in conscience to violate the moral law, but even a bishop can't discern in conscience to allow his flock to pray the ancient Mass.
Some advice, please. Larry, my pet lobster, likes to come to the empty Church with me to meditate, but the last few days have been punishing with all the heat. I’ve reverted to plonking him in the baptismal font to keep him cool. No one else is around so he’s harmless but now I’m worried I’ve contravened some important liturgical rubric and both Larry and I will boil in Hell.
Totally off subject, but thanks for the wintery you tubes. It is a real nice way to keep cool on what will be a hot humid day with heat indexes of 106-110 F.
JD Flynn: If I remember correctly from a year ago. You had data mined more than just the Monsignor’s cell phone. Please refresh our memories for as I recall, you had a number of hits from the Vatican too. What ever happened to them? Please don’t be bought out, expose it all!
JD, Catholics and people of good will are blessed to have you teaching us that even in the darkest of times, there is hope. Your article on Columbine is but one example//. God bless you!
Judie
The discussion of the Winnipeg statement reminds me of the quote that Catholicism has not been tried and found wanting; it is hard, and not tried.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Unless people, including priests, are afraid of hell, whether the eternal fire or the hell of having an article about their sins, there will not be a beginning of wisdom. It sounds so profound to say that we should not be motivated by hell, but that is the proper beginning of wisdom.
Recently someone, a Catholic, began taking instructions at an Orthodox Church. He said the Faith was being "chipped away" by Rome, theologians and weak bishops. I completely agree.
As much as I prefer Orthodox worship, discipline and practice, they have their own big problems; jurisdictionalism, phyletism, inconsistency in applying the canons and the list goes on. The Greeks are soft on abortion, most jurisdictions are soft on artificial contraception, They are busy trying to snatch sheep from other jurisdictions, (the so called Slavic Vicariate) against the canons. The Russian Church is trying to destroy the Ukrainian Churches and the Patriarch of Moscow, that puppet of Putin is blessing it all. The Georgians and others are rebaptizing converts.
I see going to Orthodoxy as trading one particular set of problems for other ones.
Please do not suggest the Eastern Catholic Churches; these Churches are slaves of Rome and an attempt as a "third way" between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The Unia has failed
Someone was pulling the USCCB’s collective leg.