[ebb tide]

The soul struggles among the U.S. bishops are mirrored in the U.S. presbyterate, according to Fr. Bob Bonnot, chair of the 1,200-member organization's leadership team. More recently ordained priests have been trained in a clerical culture not in sync with Pope Francis' vision of the church as a "field hospital," where bishops and priests are encouraged to "smell like the sheep."

[alternatives?]

I thought the title was at first, fortification.

[Catmom]

Gotta love those Novus Ordo “liturgical dances.”

That’ll bring them back to mass.

[piusv]

It all continues to point back to Vatican II.....

[Mercat]

My Church is in trouble.

[themidnightskulker]

“We need less talk about the catechism and the code of canon law and talk more about the joyful witness of passionate charity found in Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est,” continued Massingale,”

Why can we not talk about both?

It seems like the US priests’ association wants to speak to “feelings” rather to God's actual word and traditional Church doctrine.

“Removing Trump is not the answer, he maintained. Sooner or later another will arise as long as we have soul-sickness. Massingale called for a reclaiming of King's vision to counter soul-sickness by visualizing a great world house in which all people live together and learn to live in peace.”

Communist politics as viewed by a leftist, plain and simple.

Question to Father Massingale- how did this “soul sickness arise? Could it possibly be refusing ALL of God's word and just cherry picking the things you like?

[Arthur McGowan]

I think it was Hilary White who said: “The Church could not survive another ‘conservative’ Pope.”

Every one of these gay, pro-abortion whack-a-doodles was fully known to JPII and Benedict, who did nothing about them.

With one of their own as Pope, they are coming out of the closet fast and furious. The next Pope will have NO excuse for leaving them in place.