AMERICAN CATHOLIC COUNCIL: Day two and a competing meeting...

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The local media continues to cover the AMERICAN CATHOLIC COUNCIL meeting in Detroit this weekend but it is also covering a quickly called a “counter” meeting (as in counter-reformation?). The meeting was called by Detroit’s Archbishop Allen Vigneron to be held at the Burton Manor in Livonia.

He was able to muster 600 loyal Catholics (was he serving beer) on Saturday; name of meeting “CALL TO HOLINESS”.

As I have noted before, all this Catholic activity boils down to one point: is the Catholic faith governed by a dictatorship or is there room for input from the laity. The Catholics meeting in Livonia (the sheep) say that the dictatorship of the Vatican is “divinely sanctioned” and they are right because that is the justification for the dictatorship; the pope is St. Peter’s successor.

I have argued that point on historical grounds but that is not the issue here, the Livonia Catholics state over and over again that loyalty to the Vatican makes one a Catholic and not to be blindly obedient to the Vatican makes one an anti-Catholic.

One has to point out that currently many Catholics are leaving the Church (1 in 3 people raised Catholics are abandoning the faith) but as I have pointed out on many occasions, the Vatican is welcoming the leaving of these ingrates and prefers a smaller but more unified core of Catholics.