Where’s a strong Bishop when I need him?
Thank you again Greg Popcak for the link to this article on the lack of leadership in our Church .
What is up with this whole “Cardinal Maida allowing Jennifer Granholm to be a prize for winning an auction at a Catholic school thing” anyway? I do not want to be Bishop bashing, and am fully willing that I do not understand the “whys” of the decisions of these Bishops, but I can say it makes no sense from where I am standing.
I understand choosing your battles, OK, sure. But I think the American Church has chosen to back down from too many battles. Seriously. Many of us know tons of non-practicing Catholics, and many of us here would agree that “if only my local parish practiced True Catholicism, the pews would be full…” Am I wrong? How many of us are reverts and reverted when we found out that all those lessons we learned in Religious Ed in our youth about Jesus having siblings, about the transubstantiation being just symbolic, that the Church was just a place to condemn women, that Hell is only a state of mind, that religion is just a feeling of being happy WERE ALL WRONG?
I am going to take this a step further. It is my personal belief that the Church can set the climate for the moral norms of our American culture, not just among Catholics, but non-Catholics as well. Do not ask me why or how, but I do believe that. Trends spread like wildfire. Just about everyone knows a Catholic somewhere. What of all those Catholics were not Catholic in name only, but practicing, anti-abortion, non-contracepting, rosary saying Catholics? How would that set the tone for the morals in this country? I can honestly say, I don’t think abortion would be legal. I am willing to admit I am wrong, but I would bet money on it.
This is one of the many reasons why Al Sharpton should not be allowed to homilise in a Catholic parish. This is one reason why Jennifer “I’m Catholic except when it comes to freeing the world of the Tyranny of Evil Stray Babies” Granholm should not be sponsored by a Catholic institution. Of course there are other more obvious reasons, but this is the rant I am on right now…