Your experiences are similar to what I've read elsewhere; I'm not sure "demoralizing" properly captures what you've experienced. I'm so sorry, for you and our Church.
To me this is all part and parcel with the explosion in influence of the "lavender mafia", of "progressive" priests and theology, and the suppression of the Tridentine Mass.…
Your experiences are similar to what I've read elsewhere; I'm not sure "demoralizing" properly captures what you've experienced. I'm so sorry, for you and our Church.
To me this is all part and parcel with the explosion in influence of the "lavender mafia", of "progressive" priests and theology, and the suppression of the Tridentine Mass. (For how can one engage in revolution without first tearing down the old ways?) However, I sense their revolution is failing.
The current pontificate signals perhaps both the apogee and nadir of progressive influence in the Church. Think about it: a cabal of now-deceased liberal Cardinals conspired to elect Francis, but his sincerely progressive pontificate (repeatedly sowing confusion and scandal, punctuated by unpastoral words and deeds) starkly reveals the congenital flaws of the progressive movement. I think we have reason to both pray and hope that the next pope will be both more orthodox and more pastoral. (And, Lord, would it be too much to ask that he is also a friend of the Tridentine Mass, a fearless reformer, and an effective enemy of corruption and heterodoxy?)
Your experiences are similar to what I've read elsewhere; I'm not sure "demoralizing" properly captures what you've experienced. I'm so sorry, for you and our Church.
To me this is all part and parcel with the explosion in influence of the "lavender mafia", of "progressive" priests and theology, and the suppression of the Tridentine Mass. (For how can one engage in revolution without first tearing down the old ways?) However, I sense their revolution is failing.
The current pontificate signals perhaps both the apogee and nadir of progressive influence in the Church. Think about it: a cabal of now-deceased liberal Cardinals conspired to elect Francis, but his sincerely progressive pontificate (repeatedly sowing confusion and scandal, punctuated by unpastoral words and deeds) starkly reveals the congenital flaws of the progressive movement. I think we have reason to both pray and hope that the next pope will be both more orthodox and more pastoral. (And, Lord, would it be too much to ask that he is also a friend of the Tridentine Mass, a fearless reformer, and an effective enemy of corruption and heterodoxy?)