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The Catholic Church gets it form both sides: Anti-Catholics with all sorts of distorted views, and Ultra traditional "Catholics" who...

I'd read history. The medieval period, especially, was fraught with bad clergy. And, at councils preceding that era by many centuries...

1 Peter 2: 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes...

Some popes in the past have been way worse while, FWIW, JP II was canonized for good reason and Benedict as well was one of the greater...

Yes, I wouldn't expect the OC to accept Vat II, of course.

Sounds good. I'm not the Church of course, tho, Either way, I have great confidence that the Holy Spirit was in charge of Vat II-and...

I suppose

One, thing, IMO, is that the majority of people will want the bulk of the Mass language to be in the vernacular. And that one point is...

I agree that the NO liturgy has yet to follow the intention of the council-in large part, anyway-and that will sort itself out. But the...

Being under grace means that we can fulfill the law, God's way now, not ours, by the power of grace, by the power of God the Holy...

IDK-I Iisted them both to emphasize that they're not separate, or are intrinsically related in accomplishing the one purpose the post...

No, why?

When the liturgy becomes the most important thing that it's virtually idolized. we become more focused on the externals than the real...

It's in the world, and it's made up of imperfect human beings-always has been-all of them imperfect. That's why we need charisms-to...

I go by the Church teachings. The NO doesn't fit the category of leftism, BTW. And the recent "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO...