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Tell me I’m wrong, but I think the “new evangelization” and the pro-active immigration reform archbishops of Los Angeles and Boston are simply trying to change the headlines, get ahead of the news cycle about the priest sex abuse scandal.
These two archbishops head two of the dioceses where some of the biggest monetary awards have been made, and I think they’re simply trying to have Catholics in the headlines for reasons other than the sex abuse scandal.
I’m 65 years old and I always thought that all we Catholics should be making a lot more effort to evangelize the world. But, the timing of this “new” evangelization is simply not coincidental with the sex abuse scandal.
After all, what would most non-Catholics object to or question most today about the Catholic Church? dogma, yes, eventually. incense? maybe a few. But, if I were a non-Catholic even remotely thinking about joining the Church, this is one issue that would be a BIG obstacle to joining the Church.
That leads into point number 2: Who do the bishops want to explain the mess to the rest of the people in the U.S.? The Bishops? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. They want the laity to take the heat. And, in the meantime, they want US to feel guilty about not evangelizing, when they have done so much damage, collectively, to stifle evangelization.
There are a WHOLE LOT of things that people need to do to support evangelization, and so far, I haven’t heard much from the big-hat guys. Like money, for example. Where should we be donating money, if we are not personally in a situation where we can do a lot of Catholic evangelization.
Second, by now, don’t you think that there should be a lot of literature and handbooks that we should be passing out in our communities to foster evangelization?
Third, there’s that other bug-a-boo thing we’re going to run into – the REFORMATION, By the way, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation is fast approaching. Have we all been catechized to address the concerns of all the reformed churches in our hometowns? Not a chance.
These half-hearted issues are merely the attempt to displace the sex abuse scandal from the front page of the paper. Pope Francis has been changing a lot of headlines with a lot of glitz, but where is the substance?
etc. etc. We’ve got to “train the troops” before we “go into the battle.” We need a lot of prayer, too, for the aid of the Holy Spirit. I don’t see the “new evangelization” amounting to more than a slogan unless a lot starts to change – and we’re trying to do more with less – many fewer priests and professed religious. Remember how Jesus said that the laborers are few for the “harvest?”
These two archbishops head two of the dioceses where some of the biggest monetary awards have been made, and I think they’re simply trying to have Catholics in the headlines for reasons other than the sex abuse scandal.
I’m 65 years old and I always thought that all we Catholics should be making a lot more effort to evangelize the world. But, the timing of this “new” evangelization is simply not coincidental with the sex abuse scandal.
After all, what would most non-Catholics object to or question most today about the Catholic Church? dogma, yes, eventually. incense? maybe a few. But, if I were a non-Catholic even remotely thinking about joining the Church, this is one issue that would be a BIG obstacle to joining the Church.
That leads into point number 2: Who do the bishops want to explain the mess to the rest of the people in the U.S.? The Bishops? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. They want the laity to take the heat. And, in the meantime, they want US to feel guilty about not evangelizing, when they have done so much damage, collectively, to stifle evangelization.
There are a WHOLE LOT of things that people need to do to support evangelization, and so far, I haven’t heard much from the big-hat guys. Like money, for example. Where should we be donating money, if we are not personally in a situation where we can do a lot of Catholic evangelization.
Second, by now, don’t you think that there should be a lot of literature and handbooks that we should be passing out in our communities to foster evangelization?
Third, there’s that other bug-a-boo thing we’re going to run into – the REFORMATION, By the way, the 500th anniversary of the Reformation is fast approaching. Have we all been catechized to address the concerns of all the reformed churches in our hometowns? Not a chance.
These half-hearted issues are merely the attempt to displace the sex abuse scandal from the front page of the paper. Pope Francis has been changing a lot of headlines with a lot of glitz, but where is the substance?
etc. etc. We’ve got to “train the troops” before we “go into the battle.” We need a lot of prayer, too, for the aid of the Holy Spirit. I don’t see the “new evangelization” amounting to more than a slogan unless a lot starts to change – and we’re trying to do more with less – many fewer priests and professed religious. Remember how Jesus said that the laborers are few for the “harvest?”
) along with the Rev or one of the Elders to ride-rod-and-staff on the helpers. Dad sick and the yard needs mowed, there’d be a card on the door, “We stopped by today to pray for your Daddy - Baptist Chuch” and the lawn would be mowed- didn’t matter if you were one of those “cookie worshipers” or one of the members of the Church… I know, I was on one of those groups… too young then to mow; however, I could pull a dandylion out of the ground faster than you shake a stick and clean the edging and curb like it was just poured.