:tsktsk: Frommi - been reading the history of your opinions. I must commend you on your ability to use the truth backwards; reminds me of the good old communist propaganda. If you really are only 28 years old you may not have been aquainted with its style but have stumbled on it thru just plain old stupidity. I hope you can regain your balance. Let me help you. Your praise and loyalty to the former Bishop of Saginaw, “Call me Ken”, is a symptom of your condition that is so gravely ill. Its the result of sincerity to the me, myself, I - want to make major change in the Catholic Church. The damage to the Faith has been incredible in the Saginaw Diocese as a result so I guess we have to hand it to Ken, he made a major change! How to be proud of being humble without humility in 10 easy lessons - strip the churches of reminders of the Faith - like statues of the Blessed Mother, after all she was no one special, no more than any other saint. So humble. Take the crucifixes out of the churches and lets just concentrate on the happy time and remove the stations of the cross too while we are at it. Forget the kneelers - nobody wants to suffer and besides you might feel guilty about something so lets get rid of the confessional - oooH, that was a biggy. But the BIGGEST - lets get rid of the tabernacle. We will say its to provide for a special place and it won’t be a distraction when the people come into the church. A good place is a small closet or backroom - stick a couple of chairs in there; don’t need anymore than that because nobody is going in there. Why do we want to get rid of the tabernacle? Because then there won’t be too many questions raised about why we don’t kneel for the Consecration at Mass
and the substance used for the Holy Eucharist can be bread like in the “Early” church (even if we put all kinds of stuff in it to make it palatable or sweet - everybody likes sweet). When everyone has accepted these changes - well almost everyone, but who cares about those so called faithful Catholics, they can go somewhere else because we are church and we are friendly. Okay, next we discourage ordaining new priests unless they
can fit our profile - open on married priests, women priests, gay priests, tolerant of abortion, contraception and shacking up - we are very friendly. We are so proud of being humble.
Well another good idea - we will have the people arise out of their chairs and walk up in front of the assembled to deposit their
offering and return to their seat - gives everyone a chance to get a good look at everyone’s appearance as they share. Conversation is more than okay - feel free to speak right up to your neighbor as they pass by or are seated next to you. After all, its fellowship.
So open, relaxed, friendly. By the way, what are we here for?
Oh, Sister Suzie will tell us in her homily after she puts on her
fancy imitation priest garments, reads the Gospel, and gets ready to “assist” the “retired” priest who sits amongst the people until his moment to consecrate the basket of bread and glasses of wine. She does everything so much better than he could because he is retired and she knows the people better than him anyway.
So friendly is Sister Suzie, so humble. She does all this because Ken told her she could. She’s special and so are the other ten “sisters” he placed in charge of parishes. Sacraments? Put
receiving First Eucharist ahead of First Confession because after all children don’t commit sins. Come to think of it not many of the people who are coming to this church are sinners - just drop personal Confession - do it as a group - General Absolution - once a year is enough - don’t want that guilt trip on anybody. See?? To be continued - I’m tired of the history.
