What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You: The Krazies Are Coming; The Krazies are Coming

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Krazies Are Coming; The Krazies are Coming

Hold On, Here We Go Again

Just a heads-up. Get ready for the next krazy assault in the blogosphere. President Obama is giving the eulogy at Beau Biden’s Funeral Mass on Saturday at Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington. The arch-krazies will be furious that Delaware Attorney-General and son of the Vice-President is being given a funeral Mass at all, but even the moderate krazies will be leading the torch and pitch-fork krowd about a Catholic Church being “desecrated” by that Kenyan-born Muslim pretender to the presidency being allowed in the church door, much less to speak from the ambo. Forget charity; the lack of basic civility on occasions such as this is truly appalling. No wonder John 11:35.

3 comments:

AnonymousJune 6, 2015 at 9:43 AM
What is sad is that the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marraige Catholic politicians in attendance will be receiving the Blessed Sacrament at this funeral Mass.
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ConsolaminiJune 7, 2015 at 8:12 AM
no, actually if you are familiar with the Gospels, what really troubles the heart of Jesus is that there will be people sitting there judging the worthiness of those going to Holy Communion.
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AnonymousJune 8, 2015 at 7:47 AM
I wonder if anonymous above will be wondering if Rick Santorum is unworthy to go to Communion now that he has publicly dissented, in anticipation, from the teaching in the upcoming encyclical on the environment -- or are we back to the "Mater, si', magister, no" of another right-wing hypocrite, William F. Buckley in his response to the teaching of John XXIII? And please, let's not hear about any "hierarchy" of authoritative teaching -- if the looming environmental catastrophe ensue, there won't be any human beings around to violate the teachings mentioned in the post .... hierarchy indeed.
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About The Man Behind the Curtain

Welcome to "What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You." I have always had a passion for history, and Church History (or, as it is better termed "The History of the Church") and in this blog I hope to bring up interesting--and frequently deliberately overlooked--facets of the history of the Catholic Church. I will probably also dip into the history of other Christian Churches from time to time and even that of non-Christian religions, but I do hope to keep my focus on the History of the Catholic Church. I am particularly anxious to show that the Catholic faith--which while doctrine tells us "comes from the Apostles" (and presumably to them from Jesus) is in fact, like all historical institutions, an evolutionary phenomenon. There is a huge difference between Tradition and traditions,. What many "Traditionalists" are caught up with today is not Tradition at all but various minor customs of human origin and little or no theological significance. As a Catholic myself, I am anxious to separate the wheat of the Gospel from the chaff of religiosity.

I am a life-long Catholic and a professional historian (M.A., Ph.D) who also has a Master's in Theology. My grade school (Sisters of Mercy), high-school (Society of Jesus), and undergrad university (Society of Jesus) education is all in official Catholic, Kennedy Directory listed, educational Institutions as is the Grad School where I earned my Theology Degree. My History Degrees, Master's and Doctorate, are from a private East Coast University (where Jews teach Christianity to atheists) that ranks in the top one-hundred American Colleges and Universities lists. I chose a secular campus for my history work precisely so that I could not be accused of having done an "in-house" educational program. As it worked out I had one Catholic professor for one course and that course was "The History of Islam." I currenlty teach on a graduate faculty and specialize in medieval spirituality (of which I am not only a professor but a practioner) and in History of the American Church. I have also been invited around the English Speaking World to give classes and workshops--England, Ireland, Australia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, India, and Texas (among other places). I have spoken at conferences in Rome, Sao Paulo, Nantes, Krakow and other non-Anglophone locations in Europe and the Americas. I have done lecture tours on a prominent cruise line commeting on European History and the various ports of call--a great job if you can get it. In other words, I am not an amateur at this.

I am thoroughly committed to the program of the SecondVatican Council as it was promulgated in 1965 (as contrasted with how it has been reinterpreted, in some cases almost out of existence) by both self-appointed and divinely anointed authorities over the last thirty-some years. As I get older I realize that the Council is an opportunity for us Catholics to embrace the Gospel as the guiding light of our lives and is too great an opportunity to be bypassed by those who are anxious to see a revival of the juridicism, triumphalism, and clericalism decried by Bishop Emil de Smedt in the opening session of the Council. There are those "fleshpots of Egypt Catholics" who want to retreat to the slavery of pre-conciliar American Catholicism," but as for me, I still believe that John XXIII (and Pius XII before him and Paul VI after him) saw a promised land of a mature and evangelical Catholicism so needed in the 21st century and I for one embrace the future, not the past.

By the way, historians are those who embrace the future and realized that the past is there to guide us toward it. Those who embrace the past and seek to restore it are antiquarians. Christians know that we stand facing the future for that is from where the Kingdom of God calls us. Those who prefer restoring the past have not yet heard that call. Or, as one spiritual director once told me: "If God had wanted you to live in the 13th century (or the 18th, or the first half of the twentieth) he would have put you there. He put you in the present facing the future. That is where your vocation is."