Call to Action Farce

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What a terribly sad situation, or maddening. I keep vascillating. You should not hold yourself out to be Catholic and reject Catholicism, or a Christian and grieve Christ.

Sick? It makes me sick.
 
A few words come to mind…

Sick, twisted, pagan, heretic, lesbianism, Godess worship…
 
I believe we all need to get involved with teaching the faith. When we live the faith publicly, someone is always watching. And we need to know our faith in order to live it and teach it. I’m lucky in the fact that God called me into His church. I sometimes wish that someone had told me the truth about the catholic church long ago. :tsktsk:
 
Thank God that the younger generation is more orthodox.

However, I would say that the younger generation also has a significantly smaller number of practicing catholics. In my own town, I would say I am the only teenager (with one or two exceptions) who is active in my parish.

I hope this isn’t the case in other places, but it certainly is here.

In Him, through her,
Pio Magnus
 
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This is sick. But sadly it’s typical of much of our Church, even outside the Land of Fruits & Nuts.
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This is awful! All I can think of is the occult!, etc.!! And to think this is supposed to be Catholic… God help us! In the spring I attended a “Gather Us In” conference for women w/ my daughter-in-law and I thought that was bad… (she was the Rep for her parish and had to go) needless to say we left ASAP (less than 1/2 way thru)😦
 
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James0235:
But take a look at the attendees. Not a young face among them. As these folks are dying off they are not being replaced.
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James
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That was the one bit of hope I took from it. Glad someone else noticed 👍
 
I guess that is a picture of what I’ve read referred to as “that '70’s Church”. The article was about the priest scandal and the author wrote that we were seeing the end of “that '70’s Church.” Those who came into the priesthood during that time are being replaced with more traditional young men. I also read, maybe in the same article, that one priest thought the young seminarians were too arrogant and seemed to enjoyed walking around in their “clericals”. We may be entering into a very “interesting” time in Church history. It reminds of a saying I heard once, “What the father forgets, the grandson wants to know.”
 
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PioMagnus:
Thank God that the younger generation is more orthodox.

However, I would say that the younger generation also has a significantly smaller number of practicing catholics. In my own town, I would say I am the only teenager (with one or two exceptions) who is active in my parish.

I hope this isn’t the case in other places, but it certainly is here.

In Him, through her,
Pio Magnus
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Pio Magnus

In my parish, the teenagers and young adults (20’s) are quite active. In fact, almost half the people who go to Mass in my chapel (we hold about 350 people) are members of the younger generation. Over half of the readers are also under the age of 30. In fact, I have a few students who attend the chapel and are quite active in the youth group.

In the parish as a whole almost every chapel has its youth group, as well as one that meets in the parish church. All of them are active in evangelization.

John
 
I think that website is a sign of hope for the Church. :bigyikes:

After the initial shock, take a closer look.

Be mindful, too, that that photo is four years old. It was taken in August, 2000, and 300 persons attended the conference. The West Coast Conference of Call to Action could only drum up 300 attendees?!!!

How many attended in 2001, 2002, 2003…Will there even be a conference in 2004?

They are losing ground. Fast! :yup:

Yes, I would say that the photos of the “Mass” were sad, but I literally laughed out loud at some of the other photos of the conference.

Fruits and Nuts is right! 😛

An aside: Why is it that photos of “liturgical dancers” always look like they’re playing Ring Around the Rosie? What was once thought to be a creative, expressive, artistic innovation is now becoming passe also. Just how many different ways can you twirl around an altar with a bowl of incense until it becomes repetitious and boring? :yawn: Artistic? About as artistic as a Xerox machine. Copy, copy, copy, copy. Same old, same old.

So, imho, many of the liturgical abuses seen in those photos are already “old hat.”

THANK THE LORD!!! :bowdown:

Pax Christi. <><
 
I just wondered what was in the bottle the girl was holding up? Thank goodness they are all a vanishing breed.
 
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I just wondered what was in the bottle the girl was holding up? Thank goodness they are all a vanishing breed.
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Probably a bottle of Mogen David to go with the rye bread they were “consecrating.” It’s been estimated that as many as 75% of the Archdiocese of Detroit employeess (lay and religious) are card carrying CTA members. In Detroit, Call to Holiness was begun to block the same weekend as CTA, and it worked. We haven’t had Call to Action here for 5+ years. On the other hand, at Call to Holiness, it’s always jammed. We get awesome speakers. We’ve had: Fr. Pacwa, Mother Angelica, Jeff Cavins, Fr. Hardon, Donna Steichens, and Dr. Bernard Nathanson (The Silent Scream - read HIS conversion story!).

Two big supporters of CTA in Detroit were Bp. Kenneth Untener (deceased), and Bp. Thomas Gumbleton. Gumbleton’s still out there though, never in his own diocese - always somewhere else, doing something anti-Catholic.
 
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I just wondered what was in the bottle the girl was holding up? Thank goodness they are all a vanishing breed.
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most probably wine… :mad:

sad… just sad… to think that these people are old and are supposed to set examples to the youth. I’m a youth myself (18, but feel like 10) and am more conservative than most adults I meet. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?? I have similar friends, too… The Church does seem to enter an interesting generation… 👍
 
When the Call To Action types were at their peak in the 80’s isn’t that when most of the sex abuses were going on? Not that I’m making accusations about these people I just wonder if this type of dissenting attitude fosters an atomsphere which encourages abuse. I’m sure it’s something worth studying.
 
These guys are headquartered in my area, and yet Cardinal George is not openly speaking out about these dissenters.

I wish he would pull a Bruskewitz - openly announce an excommunication of those who are members of this group (and others as well)

But then again, he’s afraid of these types leaving the Church - so scandal must be a good thing then? (NOT!)
 
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most probably wine… :mad:

sad… just sad… to think that these people are old and are supposed to set examples to the youth. I’m a youth myself (18, but feel like 10) and am more conservative than most adults I meet. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?? I have similar friends, too… The Church does seem to enter an interesting generation… 👍
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It really is NOT about how old you are chronologically. I’m grey now but was alive to history/philosophy/truth at age 18 – and that translated into a traditional approach to the world and life. It’s about being AWAKE. The more awake I became, the more sense the fullness of the Church made to me. I thank the good God for young people like you!
 
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