tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post1466284228612758411..comments2023-12-18T09:55:42.480-08:00Comments on What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You: Our Whackadoodle and Friends: Not Catholic, Just Bizarre Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-42390735893451863382015-08-20T09:21:31.741-07:002015-08-20T09:21:31.741-07:00"mesmerized....by their own airbrushed, glori...<i>"mesmerized....by their own airbrushed, glorified version of the 1950's era"</i><br /><br />What an apt description! Which means that one can analogize the Krazies to folks who watch <i>Leave it to Beaver</i> reruns and who believe there were women were intended by God to wear dresses and high heels while doing housework.Ollllddudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00893625383056639105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-33619097464033099382015-08-19T23:45:56.508-07:002015-08-19T23:45:56.508-07:00Per your comments on the eroticization of the litu...Per your comments on the eroticization of the liturgy. It was no less than John Paul II who, in an apostolic letter (Mulieris dignitatem) described the Eucharist as "the Sacrament of the Bridegroom and the Bride." The extended implications of this description must, I think, include real, albeit metaphorical, sexual imagery. While I would not go so far as that unnecessarily graphic comment of Stafford, it seems to me that a kiss -- pace Freud -- in this instance is indeed a kiss. More apposite is the comparison one can make between the words of consecration and marital vows. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-55915510278653483962015-08-19T19:59:10.848-07:002015-08-19T19:59:10.848-07:00Consolamini,
I have just stumbled upon your blog ...Consolamini,<br /><br />I have just stumbled upon your blog a few days ago, and only got around to reading a bit of it now, but this is such a joy, vindication, and happiness to have found. In my time in the church, I have found that I agree with older priests, theologians, and women religious than I have with younger ones, because they seem to have a capacity for nuance and a certain willingness to think critically about the church, it's history, and the historical/eccelsiological/societal underpinnings of its self-understanding, modes of thinking, and so forth. By contrast, many of the seminarians and young priests of the Catholic Church in America are sadly lacking in both the ability to think and also in the willingness to see goodness in the secular world and shortcomings of the church. They are mesmerized, I can relate by firsthand experienced for several years, by their own airbrushed, glorified version of the 1950's era in American Catholicism, and that has led to the breeding of a new-traditionalism that threatens to divide the church more than many are willing to grant. While such sentiments are shared by perhaps a lonely 1% of rank-and-file Catholics (who are so bizarre we don't need them), the neo-traditionalist movement in the seminaries is vastly overrepresented, and encompasses a good third of the population in some major East Coast seminaries. It's sad and unfortunate, because there is a growing rift and chasm between the overall "spiritual-eccelsiological landscape," if you will, of a newly minted (or shat out, perhaps?) priest and the average Millennial or Generation Xer from which they emerged. <br /><br />In short, please keep doing what your doing. My initial review of this blog is that of a rather rare and desperately needed clearing house for intellectually rigorous, spiritually sound, and scholastically-synthetic ecclesiology of the Church in the postmodern world. While the malcontent groupies flock to their freakolope blogs in the aptly-name Krazy Katholic Kraposphere, this is truly a gem. <br /><br />If it pleases you, know that you've gained at least one viewer in the college-aged bracket who considers the material and its sources written here to be invaluable. Thanks for much for existing, in other words! I look forward to appropriating your insights here into my own journey of faith in the church and leading others to God as I consider them critically and enthusiastically. <br /><br />God bless,<br />LG.B.T. LookingGlassBulgarianTraffichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085361914868397958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-73526294976496532972015-08-19T13:09:39.195-07:002015-08-19T13:09:39.195-07:00I second that request, Julie B-G ... and was about...I second that request, Julie B-G ... and was about to make the same plea.Jimmy Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01156445623455211484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-51000712838950645242015-08-19T10:03:34.266-07:002015-08-19T10:03:34.266-07:00I like the variety, including the history, but wer...I like the variety, including the history, but were it not for you, I would not know what these folks are saying. Every now and then, in one's local parish, some one will echo the Krazies thoughts without thinking anything except "it must be holier", and I like to be able to respond intelligently. So, thanks for all of it.Ollllddudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00893625383056639105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-75442630869714290282015-08-19T06:19:01.616-07:002015-08-19T06:19:01.616-07:00I value the range of writing that you post. I lear...I value the range of writing that you post. I learn something from the history and from the contemporary issues. Please keep up the diverse range. May I put in a request for you to finish your top ten reasons for the Vatican II liturgy? Julie B-Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16820124361298575384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-45991797520421247012015-08-19T05:28:30.767-07:002015-08-19T05:28:30.767-07:00I take your point, Peter and perhaps I need to do ...I take your point, Peter and perhaps I need to do a posting on why I offer this sort of smorgasbord of contemporary issues, the past, and the relish tray of krazies. One reason is there are connections, important connections, where a lot of contemporary issues are misunderstood or abused for lack of historical information. Another reason is that much of the agenda being proposed as "authentic" Catholicism is not our tradition at all but the fruit of the 19th century post-French Revolution Romantic revival. And finally--though not without considerable influence is that my readership doubles and triples for posts on contemporary issues and even quadruples when I deal with the krazies. There is always that danger of pandering Fox News Style to one's audience and I must admit that I get too much pleasure out of it,but I will try to do proportionately more strict history than the other stuff. I guess one other reason is that the strict history does require huge amounts of research that I have to spread over a longer period of time. 18th century Anglicanism has been a bitch for that. Consolaminihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278560268489520757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-18321910328526931532015-08-18T21:49:00.703-07:002015-08-18T21:49:00.703-07:00Thanks for your posts on history and please contin...Thanks for your posts on history and please continue them and not waste time on the Katholic Krazies... in reality they are very few in number, of no real influence and are just sad people with various mental health issues. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17945047990860627785noreply@blogger.com