Posted on 06/23/2005 2:52:16 PM PDT by murphE
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House of prayer for all peoples doesn't mean house of prayer for all gods.
Yeah, someone should mention that to this joker who wrote the article.
It's as if we are an infinite collection of provincial small villages, each assuming that we are the center of the universe and nothing further needs to be said.
Try asking nicely and maybe I'll tell you.
Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles (CA, USA)
Sadly, your church is starting to sound just like the Episcopagans, starting with the word [cringe] "enflesh." Episcopagan clergy speak that kind of gibberish all the time. It's known as "Episcobabble."
If this is how the RCC clergy are thinking, you are on the slippery slope to oblivion. You can check out the Feminist/Wiccan/Druid Mass on the ECUSA site for an example (although I think they took it down when too many people started making fun of them). Clown Masses done in mime are also fun.
Could this be perverted any further? Convert them and then they can pray there.
"And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:2-3)
Bite your tongue. That's a pretty frightening question to ask when Cardinal Mahony is involved. =O
That's NO cathedral...
That's a grim air hanger for the spirits of the damned.
Apt description.
Our Churchmen are sounding and acting like pagans. Not our Church.
The major attack on the Catholic Church is modernism as described by Pope St. Pius X in his encyclical "Pascendi" it's a bear to read but it's worth so much. I'm sure you'll spot the same trends in Protestant denominations and in the Political realm.
The Mods can try all they want and they can rock the Church back on its heels and humiliate her but they will never be able to escape the fact that the tradition of the Church can't be changed and it will keep coming back to haunt them.
As it stands, they can't stop the traditionalist movement from growing and at some point the conservative middle will split and God will force them to take sides.
The first example of that I've seen in evidence since the Vatican council is Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
Fr. Malachi Martin stated that the Church is going through it's own Passion and it won't stop until the Church is entombed and then it will rise again.
I should have made clear that I was not intending to disparage the Catholic Church. As you say, however, your Churchmen are sounding more than a little kooky.
Observe and profit by the Episcopagan debacle. Disillusioned Episcopagans can at least "swim the Tiber." But where will Catholics swim to if the Catholic Church heads down the same path?
As it is written in Revelation: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Oh, don't worry. I didn't think you meant anything malicious.
Catholics have gone underground for the most part.
We are back in the catacombes in so many ways.
The diocesan structure is so rife with apostasy that it's eventually going to collapse, but there are bishops who have been quietly consecrated and live there normal lives as priests.
There are married men who have been secretly trained and ordained as "emergency" preists. Who say the Mass privately just to keep it going.
You have the traditionalists of various stripe that are attacking the problem head on.
And there are bishops and Cardinals that are sympathetic but unwilling to act until they believe they can have the most effect.
The Church will painfully and eventually just shed this skin of apostasy and God will restore her better than ever. Till then, we hold fast and wait for the night to end.
I report, you decide.
I can imagine the Catholicos hitchhiking on I-5 (goes right past it) all the way to all Armenians, in horror.
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