AMERICAN CATHOLIC COUNCIL: Meeting at COBO this weekend...

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I have been talking about a meeting being held in our Cobo Hall starting tomorrow by the AMERICAN CATHOLIC COUNCIL; some 1,500 people are to attend.

The Council is a group of maybe 30 smaller groups that want the Catholic Church to expand Vatican II enlightenment and become more progressive and (bite your tongue) democratic and transparent; all this coming on the heels of the devastating and embarrassing priestly sexual scandal.

The group wants the Church to allow women priests and more married priests. The group is diametrically opposed (I think) to what Pope Benedict is trying to do which is reverse Vatican II and take the Church backwards into the Dark Ages or at least Medieval times. Benedict wants to maintain the dictatorship of the Vatican and Catholics in positions of obeying sheep with not a peep out of them.

The meeting hit the local media when the Archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron cautioned Catholics to stay away. He said that the meeting is somehow against Canon Law while the meeting organizers have maintained that they are following and in compliance with Church laws.

I think the real problem is that there will be a Sunday Mass at Cobo Hall and the Archbishop has already threatened that any clergy attending the mass will be DEFROCKED!!! Just to point out the huge irony in this, most of the priests that molested children were NOT DEFROCKED; shows you how fucking stupid the Church can be.

I got a kick out of some of the quotes in the paper with one lady saying that the Church treats us like children, saying we can’t discuss things; that things are off-limits BUT we are adults and we need to discuss EVERYTHING…something I have been saying all along.

The problem as I see it is that the Church will not change unless we get an enlightened pope like John XXIII and that seems very unlikely since all the cardinals spots have been filled by John Paul and Benedict which guarantees regression and not a hint of progression for years if not decades to come.

The liberal Catholics have a snow balls chance in hell to reform the Church, at this time, but in history, the Church has reformed itself so it is not an impossibility.

Are the liberal Catholics willing to wait for generations or do they break off and form an American Catholic Church?

The problem is that these liberal Catholics are REAL Catholics and want to belong to the one TRUE Church they were raised in and there lies the rub…

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