Image via WikipediaTold you there were many “Catholic” issues in the media this weekend; will take me all week to get to them all.
This next one is quite interesting because the story was titled “Catholic bloggers aim to purge dissenters”.
Now, I blog about Catholic issues quite often and usually criticize the Church for not being liberal enough but this one group (RealCatholicTV.com) is saying the Catholic Church is not Catholic enough; meaning it is not conservative enough.
This group is going after so called pseudo-Catholics or those “traitorous” Catholics that do not toe the orthodox line put out by the Vatican
They are going after nuns, priests or bishops throughout America that do not live up to their conservative Catholic faith or shall we say, take a liberal approach to their faith; they call them a “cancer” in the Church.
Some are calling this “Taliban Catholicism” since no dissent is allowed. I wonder how they would have behaved under Pope John XXIII and his quest to bring the Church out of the darkness of superstition; would they have called him a cancer.
The facts are simple, there is a division in the American Catholic Church, a deep division and the Church is trying to gain back its authority after suffering a debilitating( if not fatal) hit with the priestly sex scandal among other scandals.
They can only get back to normal by going back to the dark days where their authority was unquestioned because the people were prohibited from questioning anything under penalty of eternal damnation; listen and learn was the commandment I remember from my childhood and that is exactly what the new president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said: We are not just one set of teachers in the Catholic community, but THE teachers – period.
The internet has enabled many Catholic voices to be heard and the authority of the Church, pope, bishops and all, to be questioned. It is as if the Church has finally been exposed to the true light of day and all their dark and dirty secrets out in the open for all to see.
One thing that this orthodox blogging group has asked its supporters to do is to “…be aware and studied and knowledgeable enough about the faith to recognize a heretical nun or a traitorous priest or bishop when they see one”.
Once people actually know something about their faith other than what they have been told and some history of their Church, other than what they have been told by their bishop, the flood gates will be opened, and the truth shall set them free.
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