Recent content by tz620q

I think I agree with nearly everything you have said here.

I love Pope Benedict and cheered his support for the TLM. Our current Pope is not as supportive; but there is a practical question here. As time goes by, fewer and fewer young people are learning Latin. This leads to a decline in priests that know how to do the TLM. That need is what Bishop...

I am all in favor of discussing liturgy as a means for man to worship God and what is better. We stumble along and humans make decisions on how to do this. The only thing we can do as People of God is try to get the greatest minds together in conference and pray for God's guidance. This was...

That was me. I don't mean this as a change every year; but the TLM was 400 years old when VII happened. How long do you stick with a dead language that only a small fraction of the people at mass can understand before change is on the table? Let me ask you one question, "Is Latin the official...

This surprises me that you said this since liturgy literally means "work of the people". Believe me, I see your point and appreciate your deep love of ancient liturgies; but you must admit that each culture and to a lesser degree each time had their own ways of worship and formed their own...

This may not be your position and if not I apologize; but I have had SSPX people argue that the Tridentine mass is the only valid Catholic liturgy. That of course begs the question on whether the Eastern Churches have valid liturgy and whether the Catholic Church was performing invalid liturgy...

There is an old joke about an elderly couple driving along and the woman says, "You never sit close to me and hold my hand anymore". The man says, "I never moved." I suppose one could make this case about the SSPX; but in truth, as you have found, they are a group that puts ritual above unity...

What is important as consumers of news is not the bias in the media as much as our understanding their bias. That understanding allows us to not get stuck in an echo chamber where we are suffering from confirmation bias, consuming news that just reinforces our opinions instead of challenging them.

I thought about this chicken or egg effect. Then I realized that this all preceded Trump. The echo chamber environment of New York City based journalism was just as evident in Nixon's time as Trump's. That was really the point of my post. I don't think this effect is one where one person or...

I can remember in November, 2016 the tone in the major media decision centers. They started the evening practically declaring a Clinton win. I remember one political analyst saying that the only way for Trump to win was for a long series of dominos to fall just the right way. As each domino...

I think there comes a point in our current media circus where you can be pro-life or a candidate; but you can't be both and expect to be elected. Trump has now put the baby to bed and can avoid some of the more vicious attacks from the left. It is enjoyable to see how mad he has made the media...

The View, like a lot of mainstream media has become a mouthpiece for the DNC. Barbara Walters started this program to create a place where women could discuss differing points of view, hence the title. Now, if your point of view is different from the majority of the panel, you get the ad...

The offshoot of this is that they church shop to find that pastor that feeds them their gourmet meal of reheated opinion.

Are you going to the National Eucharistic Congresss?

I debated putting this in American Politics; but decided to put it here to maybe clarify and unify the Catholics here around what words mean and how those meanings should elucidate and not obfuscate our thinking.