This is an incredibly mean-spirited characterization of people you say you understand. I think it is also a huge misunderstanding of Christ, but I will leave that one up to the more theologically trained.
This is an incredibly mean-spirited characterization of people you say you understand. I think it is also a huge misunderstanding of Christ, but I will leave that one up to the more theologically trained.
GailтАжI said many of the pillarтАЩs subscribers would be apoplectic with McElroys elevation. You are commended for raising your hand. It always helps to be substantive and explain your understanding of ChristтАЩs intent for what His Church should be. I will never dismiss your comments as mean spirited just because your comments are pointed and I disagree. You would not be a subscriber if you did not care deeply about the Church.
We are all here to express our views of what we think Christ intended His Church to be. If you and I care about the Church, as we both do, we both will be open to what Pope Francis , the Apostolic Successor, thinks the Church should be. For reasons that many of us donтАЩt understand, but yet have to respect, he has chosen to lead through leaving bread crumbs.
It is not what I had hoped for or would have recommended, but given the left/ right polarization in the Church, I understand his approach as striving to maintain, not blow up, unity. When I see his elevation of MCElroy , I see it as a new crumb to be deciphered. I decipher it as explained. How do you decipher it ? However that might be, I will respect your view, no matter how pointedly you explain it. So tell us your view.
We all speculate on what Pope Francis really thinks. He is confounding. In any organization a leader who is not able to articulate a clear policy leaves employees and associates unsettled. They lose confidence in his/ her leadership. Many leave. Those that stay hope clarity will be forthcoming. They cite certain of the leaders comments as supportive of what they believe to be the truth. They claim statements the leader makes to which they disagree as misstatements or twisted by others. Many who stay tune out the dissonance to avoid upset. Many feel they have no place to goтАж. there is no alternative better than what they have. They ride it out hoping for the best as they see it. That is the Catholic Church of 2022 and perhaps this millennium.
This is an incredibly mean-spirited characterization of people you say you understand. I think it is also a huge misunderstanding of Christ, but I will leave that one up to the more theologically trained.
GailтАжI said many of the pillarтАЩs subscribers would be apoplectic with McElroys elevation. You are commended for raising your hand. It always helps to be substantive and explain your understanding of ChristтАЩs intent for what His Church should be. I will never dismiss your comments as mean spirited just because your comments are pointed and I disagree. You would not be a subscriber if you did not care deeply about the Church.
We are all here to express our views of what we think Christ intended His Church to be. If you and I care about the Church, as we both do, we both will be open to what Pope Francis , the Apostolic Successor, thinks the Church should be. For reasons that many of us donтАЩt understand, but yet have to respect, he has chosen to lead through leaving bread crumbs.
It is not what I had hoped for or would have recommended, but given the left/ right polarization in the Church, I understand his approach as striving to maintain, not blow up, unity. When I see his elevation of MCElroy , I see it as a new crumb to be deciphered. I decipher it as explained. How do you decipher it ? However that might be, I will respect your view, no matter how pointedly you explain it. So tell us your view.
We all speculate on what Pope Francis really thinks. He is confounding. In any organization a leader who is not able to articulate a clear policy leaves employees and associates unsettled. They lose confidence in his/ her leadership. Many leave. Those that stay hope clarity will be forthcoming. They cite certain of the leaders comments as supportive of what they believe to be the truth. They claim statements the leader makes to which they disagree as misstatements or twisted by others. Many who stay tune out the dissonance to avoid upset. Many feel they have no place to goтАж. there is no alternative better than what they have. They ride it out hoping for the best as they see it. That is the Catholic Church of 2022 and perhaps this millennium.