Wednesday, March 05, 2008
PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
The underground church got a new member in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Over at Free Republic the defection of the St. Stephen's 9 a.m. mass-in-the-gym crowd has decided that leaving is preferable to following the rubrics.
Bye bye. Have a nice life.
There is an explanation over there of the nuances of the underground church...uh, the "borderline communities", the "above-ground communities", the "insiders", the "outsiders"...it takes a dictionary to keep up with them. Why not settle simply for "Not Roman Catholic". That says it all. They are each going their own way, and headed for disagreement as sure as the sun will come up somewhere tomorrow. How much better off spiritually their members would be if they stayed with Christ's Church.
This is rich:
I'm not interested in living in any type of ghetto, yet that's what Pope Benedict XCI seems intent on creating for Catholics. I'm drawn to a Church open to the Spirit, a Church that recognizes and celebrates itself as the Risen Body of Christ, alive and afoot in the world; a Church unafraid of journeying and engagement, of growth and change.
Any good Gnostic could have written that. They even admit to being about celebrating themselves. Notice that "Spirit" in not preceded by "Holy".
If you have time to read the comments, some of them will also bring a smile. I wonder if the leadership at St. Joan of Arc is losing any sleep yet?
You can thank Susanna for the link to this little piece of good news! Then say a prayer of thanksgiving for Co-adjutor John Nienstedt. He's got a tough job.
