The Catholic Church had does nothing to stop the advance of gay marriage. It is time to stop with the liturgy (this goes for all liturgical churches) and start some real preaching with fire in the belly. There is a reason why people like Billy Sunday were so popular, he didn’t scratch the itchy ears, instead he preached God’s word with conviction.
“Fire and brimstone” homilies went out with the culture of the 1950s.
I nearly don’t blame you, by the standard for some of the awful condition of the “new Mass”, aka, Novus Ordo out of Vatican II. It has brought into many Western churches, bad fruit. It was not always this way. That’s all I can say. If you are old enough to remember the vibrancy of the Catholic Church before the meddling of VII, you know what I mean. Vocations flourished in WW II and the 50’s were good to us.
Protestants and Catholics alike loved Bishop Sheen’s regular weekly program, and Father John what’s-his-name had Hollywood stars who were Catholic on TV frequently, saying the Rosary and promoting the old adage, “the family who prays together, stays together”. Bob Hope and his devout wife were staunch Catholics. The priests were fearless, heroic on the battlefields of Europe with their boys.
And then, Vatican II came.