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In the May 8th Wall Street Journal an article
caught my eye: BISHOP WEIGHS IN ON PARISH REVOLT.
The bishop was Robert Morlino and the parishes in question
are in Platteville , Wisconsin
It seems the general lack of priests in the U.S. forced the
church to assign two Spanish priests to the parishes in Platteville. These
priests brought with them their own Catholic culture which bans female altar
servers, has a strict dress code for mass services and emphasizes doctrinal
orthodoxy in sermons and pushed the act of confession as the best road to
salvation.
Well it appears that the parishioners did not like what
these priests were doing and started proceedings to have the priests removed;
many stopped going to mass and stopped supporting the church.
I guess the bigger issue here is about the current pope
pushing the church backwards to tradition and orthodoxy and American Catholics
wanting the church to adapt to changing times; something has gotta’ give!
Bishop Morlino, head of the Madison , Wisconsin
Some of the people that quit the church said that these
conservative priests concentrated on sin and confession and not charity and
embracing others as in the golden rule and they have a very valid point here;
the new backward trend in the Catholic Church does not emphasize service to humanity
but a return to strict order and tradition.
Some Catholics obviously welcome the return to the strict
old days but more and more Catholics see the church as no longer representing
their feelings and their beliefs and they bridle at the church’s idiotic and
nonsensical stances on social issues.
American parishioners are joined by American nuns and
priests that share their concern for the direction of their church and religion
and as I have said before…something has got to give and the church does not
have much room to maneuver anymore.
Church leaders have failed miserably at their jobs and have
to be held accountable; even dictators can be deposed.
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