My First Holy Communion Day, our parish said the new Mass. the dear Sister rehearsed all the responses with us. It seems all went downhill from there. That same order of nuns is concerned with climate change and no longer dress like nuns. I know because I get their glossy colored newsletters.
God reward you for this brilliant presentation and analysis. Despite the fact that it is absolutely essential to engage if we are to correct course -- eventually -- it represents the agony endured by the faithful, most of whom are now dead, during those wretched days. The "renewal" was spooned out by clerics and religious with smirks on their faces. For those willing to see the truth of the events it was quite clear that it was an exercise in self-gratification. So many of them abandoned their vocations while and shortly after the machine went into motion. They themselves became evidence of the character of the operation.
We live with the consequences, and the worst appears yet to come.
The vocation director in our Archdiocese just put out an analysis of the state of our priesthood.
+ 93 parishes and only 93 active priests.
+ Current data shows 53 priests will retire in the next 15 years -- 3.5 per year.
+ Current trend data indicates an average of 0.7 priests ordained per year over the next 10 years.
+ No priestly ordinations predicted in 2028, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033.
Our current Archbishop is a year beyond 75 and we wait, and wait, and wait for a shepherd to whip this place into line.
The clerical egoists who confected this disaster surely thought "What could go wrong?'
There are apologists of the NO and Vat II who claim Cardinal Ottivani’s letter was written by someone else, as he was blind. Do you know anything about that claim?
I am in a tussle with someone and they, using that bit of information, claim traditionalist twist that story.
I am not having any luck finding satisfactory information on it.
Cardinal Ottaviani was blind in his senior years because of diabetes but he surely was not so spiritually or theologically. A man of uncommon Catholic sense and a churchman of resource -- he surely had the means to have his ideas rendered without the aid of his own vision by his staff. I researched your question on the web, and Time Magazine reported back in the day this quote from the Cardinal: "I am the watchman of the Church, even though I am blind." It was reported that a popular Vatican saying at the time was that he "sees more with one eye than most see with two".
I remember him being much mocked by the rogue clerics back in the sixties, as was the brilliant Cardinal Tisserant.
My First Holy Communion Day, our parish said the new Mass. the dear Sister rehearsed all the responses with us. It seems all went downhill from there. That same order of nuns is concerned with climate change and no longer dress like nuns. I know because I get their glossy colored newsletters.
God reward you for this brilliant presentation and analysis. Despite the fact that it is absolutely essential to engage if we are to correct course -- eventually -- it represents the agony endured by the faithful, most of whom are now dead, during those wretched days. The "renewal" was spooned out by clerics and religious with smirks on their faces. For those willing to see the truth of the events it was quite clear that it was an exercise in self-gratification. So many of them abandoned their vocations while and shortly after the machine went into motion. They themselves became evidence of the character of the operation.
We live with the consequences, and the worst appears yet to come.
The vocation director in our Archdiocese just put out an analysis of the state of our priesthood.
+ 93 parishes and only 93 active priests.
+ Current data shows 53 priests will retire in the next 15 years -- 3.5 per year.
+ Current trend data indicates an average of 0.7 priests ordained per year over the next 10 years.
+ No priestly ordinations predicted in 2028, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033.
Our current Archbishop is a year beyond 75 and we wait, and wait, and wait for a shepherd to whip this place into line.
The clerical egoists who confected this disaster surely thought "What could go wrong?'
Everything.
There are apologists of the NO and Vat II who claim Cardinal Ottivani’s letter was written by someone else, as he was blind. Do you know anything about that claim?
I am in a tussle with someone and they, using that bit of information, claim traditionalist twist that story.
I am not having any luck finding satisfactory information on it.
Cardinal Ottaviani was blind in his senior years because of diabetes but he surely was not so spiritually or theologically. A man of uncommon Catholic sense and a churchman of resource -- he surely had the means to have his ideas rendered without the aid of his own vision by his staff. I researched your question on the web, and Time Magazine reported back in the day this quote from the Cardinal: "I am the watchman of the Church, even though I am blind." It was reported that a popular Vatican saying at the time was that he "sees more with one eye than most see with two".
I remember him being much mocked by the rogue clerics back in the sixties, as was the brilliant Cardinal Tisserant.
Let us pray for the Church.
Thank you, James!