JP II priests/bishops?
Have we ordained many normalSubmitted by Austin (not verified) on Nov. 11, 2010.Have we ordained many normal men in the past 20 or so years? I see a bunch of weirdos who are terrified of women and...
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Catholicism today has been turned over to a small minority — a psychological subset in society who deal with their insecurities in a fairly specific way. They are zealots without compare. Until that...
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Nobody would ever accuse the so-called Reform of the Reform of a lack of transparency. You can see right through its almost weekly moves to return Catholicism to the Eden of church life that they...
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The entire mindset of the Church is that when you meet with a bishop they are the teacher — you listen to them; you don't ask questions. No person can have a serious theological or moral discussion...
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Excellent point. The churchSubmitted by John M (not verified) on Sep. 23, 2011.Excellent point. The church viciously polices bishops on doctrine and behavior in general but not when it comes to...
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I agree, for the most part,Submitted by John M (not verified) on Sep. 23, 2011.I agree, for the most part, with the three arguments you present for not blaming the Vatican (entirely).But you are...
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My kids are not adults yet,Submitted by mountain dweller (not verified) on Nov. 07, 2011.My kids are not adults yet, but they are already disillusioned by the creepiness and remoteness of the...
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What else did you expect from that generation? one young seminarian sneered when I asked him about the priest scandals. Those old 1960s and 1970s types thought they were God’s gift to the ages. That...
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It started as a small issue. It soon became a thorough-going heated exchange. In conversation with a young Catholic priest I objected to the growing separation between the clergy and the people in our...
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The irony of theSubmitted by hstoryscritic (not verified) on Aug. 04, 2011.The irony of the restorationist mindset is that the bishops have no sense of guilt about their abuse of power, when they made...
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Our Diocese has an unresponsive Bishop who hides away from the laity, and only listens to a small handful of his sycophant cronies who want to rule the Diocese under an iron fist, and return all the...
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One of the reasons that soSubmitted by LittleBear (not verified) on Jan. 09, 2012.One of the reasons that so many of the bishops are not connected to the people of their dioceses is that the bishops,...
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We just finished a decade ofSubmitted by Catholic Physician (not verified) on Jul. 05, 2011.We just finished a decade of doing it Bp Vasa's way in the Baker Diocese with the strictist adherence to the...
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If the "majority ofSubmitted by Lore H. (not verified) on Jun. 30, 2011.If the majority of American's bishops are fundamentally healthy men how is it possible that so few stood up to do what is right...
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There is hope that some ofSubmitted by Michael Bindner (not verified) on Mar. 12, 2012.There is hope that some of the people whose conscience were formed by these priests are now priests themselves...
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Perhaps you have missed theseSubmitted by Christa (not verified) on Jun. 22, 2012.Perhaps you have missed these recent statistics:According to a 2008 Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate...
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I sincerely do worry about the recruitment policies of recent times in trying to encourage these so-called John Paul Priests. That is a disaster timed to explode in about another three or four decades...
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Submitted by ChristopherJSubmitted by LittleBear (not verified) on Jul. 13, 2012.Submitted by ChristopherJ (not verified) on Jul. 13, 2012.You stated:I believe your comment lacks both the historical...
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Wow...just, wow! ThisSubmitted by C.Lewis (not verified) on Aug. 07, 2012.Wow...just, wow!This paragraph sums up the transition of the counter-reformation Church of my youth to the post-Vat II...
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By definition, JPII bishops cannot *listen*. They were promoted from the presbyterate because they could be expected by Rome to kowtow to every papal hiccup and curial fart. These guys, for the most...
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You left out these sentences about the business.Fortunately, low morale and a lack of customer interest in the company is limited largely to the fashionable and trendy product lines. Indeed, the...
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