No one in my normal (well-informed, fairly middle-class) parish was talking about the Synod last week, or will be talking about the Synod tomorrow, or would have been talking about the Synod if it had said anything different.
Did anyone at parochial level notice Vatican I? Hardly anyone would have noticed Vatican II if the Liturgy had not changed. To this day, any number of people think that it said or did nothing else. The Council did not in fact change the Liturgy, but that only goes to show.
The inhabitants of certain ghettoes, not all of them in the Catholic Church at all, clearly have no idea how She works or operates.
And whose fault is that? I was waiting, last week, that my priest will mention ANYTHING about the Synod...during the Sunday Mass. No, this never had happened. Why do they have to bother? Why do they
ReplyDeletehave to answer to the questions from Catholics: why pope is pushing something that in not in the Bible? It is easier to manipulate the ignorant... If the clergy has no need to speak to their hard working parishioners - too busy to know everything about church politics - so, why they have to be blamed for it?
Why did you expect to hear about it at a Parish Mass?
DeleteEven our thoroughly protestantised parish priest (a troll of the F1 good, B16 bad variety) was alarmed by the synod. Weird that Frankie risked losing even the prods over this one. It seems no less strange that, in the 21st century, the Catholic Church could elect a pope who has read less Orwell than David Lindsay.
ReplyDeleteMy own view is that if be wants something to do, F1 should take a language course (like JPII) and improve his English and German. Did he really spend on a doctorate in Germany? I doubt it. Whilst his English is worse than that of a Lanzarote waiter. Other than that there isn't a right lot for him to do. This book publishing nonsense has got to stop though. I saw his latest oeurvre on display in WH Smith's and was embarrassed.
The election of this Pope indicated that English, German and everything that come with them just do not matter all that much anymore.
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