Honesty, IMO, wait for the “Destructive Generation” to pass away (and I am of that generation), and wait for the CINOs (Catholic In Name Only) to leave when the heat gets too hot from the secular culture. Then the excellent young priests and young faithful coming up can begin to repair 50 years of damage and dissent, with the help (yes) of the coming persecution.
Maybe not the answer you were looking for?
I’ve been thinking about your statements since asking the question.
I’m glad you replied, and I can empathize with you in a way. But, when I put your response in perspective, I dont think you understood the question. But maybe it is that I dont understand what you meant, so let me try to review what’s being said here.
What you are proposing sounds like a sort of “scorched earth” policy, but the means by which you would burn off the chaff would be to “stop” and “wait”, specifically for a generation of heathens to die away; and, then, when secular culture turns up the heat on the church, CINO’ will leave. Then the good Priests will come forward. You didnt cite any scripture of Theological justification for the claims, but it’s possible one could form scriptural parallels.
There’s a couple of problems in what you are saying, however; both with respect to my question and with respect to our general state of affairs as a church.
With respect to the question, it might not have been clear enough, but - to clarify - what could we do to restore solidarity in the church right now?
The call of the questions seeks two things: 1.) action in the present moment, and 2.) solidarity.
With respect to #1, to wait and do nothing in this day and age would only allow opponents (companies and governments, entities as large as Google or Russia or China, for instance) to gain a stronger foothold and create a whole new larger set problems, which would effectively weaken what we have by a generation and then some.
With respect to #2 - Catholic solidarity is by nature specifically inclusive, whereas your answer is generally exclusive. For instance, assume the people you are calling CINO are blinded because they think they know something. You’re saying you would “exclude” such people by skipping a generation - which would actually be impossible because they would still talk about whatever it is they think they know. The main point is, however, Christ’s came as an itinerant teacher, whose universal mission was one of salvation and mercy, which he carried all the way to Golgotha and beyond to this present day. Christ even would have forgiven Judas, the son of destruction, if Judas had not himself turned away; so great was Christ’s wish to save everyone, He offered no resistance to it. So CINO’s, whatever that means, are likely people Christ would have invited into and engaged in a dialogue, as we see repeatedly throughout the Scriptures. Thus, obeying His Father’s will, He would have immutably and eternally saved and sustained whoever He could have, especially anyone who the Father drew to Him.
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