tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post2229718787972173573..comments2023-12-18T09:55:42.480-08:00Comments on What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You: Evangelical Catholicism And The Critical Need to Keep Going Forward Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-5279750935807442532014-11-18T07:57:34.182-08:002014-11-18T07:57:34.182-08:00I am very sorry to hear that. Looking at the blog...I am very sorry to hear that. Looking at the blogs, I find that many of the krazies are driven by their anger --or more accurately by their fears that trigger a deep anger; but at the same time I find their self-righteousness would be sufficiently strong to deter them from vulgarities. But there are always a few such as the person who runs the Mundabor Blog who are rageaholics or people like the person who runs the Pope Francis the Destroyer Blog who are mentally or emotionally unbalanced. "Father D's" Blog can be a bit Benny-Hillish at times and I find he can make be a bit uncomfortable with his humor--but then as I say I am a bit of a prig--but there is no call to retort with vulgarity. In looking through some of his back entries, by the way, I was rolling on the floor with P.D.Q. Bach's Requiem for Four Accordions. I think that is the funniest thing I have yet to see on any blog. Consolaminihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278560268489520757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-10476716040076764402014-11-16T12:52:17.150-08:002014-11-16T12:52:17.150-08:00It has been very interesting, in a sad and patheti...It has been very interesting, in a sad and pathetic sort of way, to see the comments being left at the humor blog that did put a serious link to YOUR blog a few days back, "Fr D's Blog", a send-up of Father Zuhlsdorf. In the last couple of days, that blog has been bombarded with vile comments, liberally (pardon the pun) laced with the "F" bomb, graphic sexual stuff, really bad. Eventually even the comic person who writes the blog took the worst ones down, at which point the traditionalists came back and proclaimed: *** WARNING TRADITIONALISTS! MODERATION IS ON! *** as if acknowledging that, indeed, the filth WAS from among their own. But it all adds up doesn't it? And it shows what odds Pope Francis is up against. The shadow side of all that self-righteousness is clearly a very deep-seated pathology, and the ranting and raving against "adulterous unions" and "sodomy", etc etc etc is really their own skeletons begging to be let out of their tightly locked closets. Fascinating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-77696618383086273082014-11-15T19:17:04.732-08:002014-11-15T19:17:04.732-08:00I agree. Much of our current "leadership"...I agree. Much of our current "leadership" is ignoring the problem, and it doesn't come from the supposedly bad catechesis that young Catholics supposedly learned from Vatican II. The krazies are quick to blame Vatican II for everything they hate. Rather, it is the hypocrisy of a clergy that fixates on sex to the exclusion of addressing real problems that exist in the Church and world. There is an interesting parallel to this in the Religious Right. Many young people that were raised in the political atmosphere of the Religious Right have become sick of the hatred and are leaving the political churches in droves. khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-60379960864125802402014-11-14T01:05:09.309-08:002014-11-14T01:05:09.309-08:00I could not agree more. And the truly sad and end...I could not agree more. And the truly sad and endlessly ironic thing about this repression is that the moral issues -- whatever they truly are -- would resolve themselves if people experienced the living relationship with God witnessed by the Catholic mystics. There would be no more need for the dreary moralizing hierarchs never tire of spouting. This is, by the way, the real secret to Francis' success -- he is a Jesuit who can be relied on to drink regularly from the Ignatian stream of spirituality. The Burkes of the world with their obsession for ecclesiastical display and the krazies with their preoccupation with anatomical plumbing and Disneyland liturgy will only appeal to a "religion as neurosis" form of spirituality. Your interlocutors were also correct to note how they would likely be out of business if Catholics ever awoke to what they repress in favor of Church Lady-esque caricatures. Isn't that special?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com