tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post5657510447389788823..comments2023-12-18T09:55:42.480-08:00Comments on What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You: Of Shepherd's Staffs, Battle Flags, and the Traditional Latin Mass Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-92142964442164740062015-07-12T07:57:16.789-07:002015-07-12T07:57:16.789-07:00you bring up some interesting points that I hope t...you bring up some interesting points that I hope to address in my next posting. It shows a discomfort with change which is a topic I have dealt with before but it also brings up differing understandings of "faith" that underly the every growing division in the Church between those who have embraced the vision of the Second Vatican Council and those who resist it. I need to give this some thought but plan to put aside my next entry and respond.<br />Consolaminihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278560268489520757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-39407586126000630922015-07-12T05:45:55.154-07:002015-07-12T05:45:55.154-07:00Brilliant as usual. While you are correct that th...Brilliant as usual. While you are correct that the symbols in question reflect fundamental differences in political and theological ideologies respectively -- and just as you note a possible legitimacy to the symbols should they represent something sound, i.e. a true confederacy and a genuine continuity, in fact they do neither because they have so muddied with unsavory connotations, i.e. racism and triumphalism respectively. That said, please don't forget how much the traddies are driven by psychosexual pathologies -- as your reference to meds allows -- and no matter how much intellectual puffery they offer to shore up their so-called preference, the fact remains they are, for the most part, seriously hampered from a developmental standpoint, beginning with the clerical dress-up dolls. The real danger to the church is how down the road these traddie priests will begin acting out in all sorts of ways -- if they persevere at all once the fascination with externals fades -- and the church will once again be dealt very serious problems. All that rigidity, pomposity and incense is serving as a smokescreen behind which lies terribly murky, because unconscious, drives and complexes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900800634479346046.post-72768975814741127942015-07-12T04:25:39.632-07:002015-07-12T04:25:39.632-07:00A noble attempt that will fall on deaf ears for th...A noble attempt that will fall on deaf ears for the tired Catholics who would like to believe that there's something more to Catholicism than toeing an ever-changing Party Line. The Traditional Latin Mass is not the Mass of power-hungry reactionaries, but of defensive, bewildered Catholics who yearn for at least symbolic stability in a world of doctrinal ambiguity. Right or wrong as they may be, those "preconciliar teachings" are what generations of Catholics have been taught and have told their children to believe and take seriously. It's one hell of a reverse course that they are being asked to take lying down. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com