[NYer]

First of all, kudos, Colleen on an excellent find! I not only enjoyed this article but bookmarked it as well.

As for your suggestion that the church has "collapsed" spiritually, I would beg to disagree. The post concilliar church has brought in some outstanding converts who have contributed MUCH to the spirituality of the church.

God acts in His own ways. To ridicule the Second Council is, in a sense, to challenge God's handiwork through His church.

[american colleen]

As for your suggestion that the church has "collapsed" spiritually, I would beg to disagree.

I agree wid ya.

Thank you Jesus, I was sitting rather lethargically at Mass a few years ago - in a liberal, NO parish with a liberal NO priest and a nun/priestess wanna-be and I nearly keeled over when I heard that inner voice tell me to come back and that this is where I belonged. My entire body relaxed and I almost cried because I had so neglected Him for so long and I knew it - which I hadn't before that happened.

At the risk of sounding like one of the progressives (YIKES), we are the Church and change has to come through each one of us. Well, my entire life changed while sitting in a nondescript, NO parish.

[dsc]

"To ridicule the Second Council is, in a sense, to challenge God's handiwork through His church."

I suspect it may rather be to respond appropriately to Satan's attack on God's Church.

[St.Chuck]

To ridicule the Second Council is, in a sense, to challenge God's handiwork through His church.

The really cool thing about you, is the amount of typing you save me. God bless you and your pinpoint analysis.:o)