>>Maybe in some areas, but I reckon if this craving was as common as this guy says, the bishops of the U.S. would catch a lot more static of an orthodox sort than they do now.<<
I don’t know that it isn’t there but we just don’t hear about it.
Also, in some places the innovators are so “in the trenches” that there is no way to shoehorn them out. This was the case when I moved to my area. I found a nice parish, then suddenly a new DRE was hired. Very innovative. Soon all of her buds were in the highest places of the parish. We went from a nice parish to “innovation central”. Many of our parishoners were Snowbirds who left for winter and came back in summer to the innovations. Living through VII, they had no clue about the new postures and liturgy so just went along.
Some of us began to protest. One lady found out the the Catechism classes would be parading through the main for Mardi Gras, with noisemakers. She went to the priest. First he defaulted to the DRE then after enough complaints (why not teach about Ash Wednesday?), he relented.
After volunteering to assist in the 1st grade class and hearing the teacher tell a boy a simple “No” to the question, “Is it really blood in the cup.” I knew I had to do something before the following year when my daughter would be in second grade. I volunteered to be part of the Education Committee. To make a long and horrible story short, the DRE wanted suggestions to improve the parish to come from the Protestant churches in the area. Any suggestion of Catholic (like an explaination of the sacraments by the Knights of Columbus inserted in the bulletin) was poo-pooed.
Needless to say, I escaped.
Now I say, talk with your feet. Find a good orthodox parish and move your money there.
**To make a long and horrible story short, the DRE wanted suggestions to improve the parish to come from the Protestant churches in the area. Any suggestion of Catholic (like an explaination of the sacraments by the Knights of Columbus inserted in the bulletin) was poo-pooed.**
Huh! I hope more people vote with their feet and tell the priest why.
Every Church in our area seemed to be liberal at one time. A few years ago we got a new Bishop and although he was considered a liberal by some in his old diocese, compared to what we had this Bishop seems very strict. Thirty years of “anything goes” from the old Bishop, however, has left the area I live in a wasteland — you shoulda seen the religious ed. I received, after I was done I don’t reckon that the Unitarians woulda took me. Hopefully this will change under the new Bishop, who isn’t especially conservative, but does enforce church teaching (I hope he doesn’t realize what he could get away with around here if he wanted to...).
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