Disrespectful "rapping monk" from the order of franciscans

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I know Father Pontifex personally. 😎 He is an excellent, faithful priest with a gift for creating music and working with youth.
 
Personally, I don’t think this is disrespectful. Everything he is filmed doing in the church is respectful. There has been a Catholic hip hop movement going on for quite a while now – while I’m generally not into hip hop all that much, I know a number of people that really like having a modern genre of music that praises God rather than glorifying the drugs, booze, casual sex, violence and materialism that secular hip hop often does.
 
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Father Stan Fortuna of the Franciscans Friars of the Renewal (the same order co-founded by the late Fathers Benedict Groeschel and Andrew Apostoli of EWTN) has been rapping and ministering through popular forms of music for many years. It’s not my favorite style of music, but it obviously appeals to many people. When it comes to evangelizing, one effective way is to reach the people where they are.
 
christofirst said:
Father Stan Fortuna of the Franciscans Friars of the Renewal (the same order co-founded by the late Fathers Benedict Groeschel and Andrew Apostoli of EWTN) has been rapping and ministering through popular forms of music for many years. It’s not my favorite style of music, but it obviously appeals to many people. When it comes to evangelizing, one effective way is to reach the people where they are.

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I’ve heard some of Fr Stan’s work - pretty good to my uneducated eardrums.
 
Yes, I understand he’s a fine bass player too, and plays jazz as well as hip hop. I met him once briefly at a Catholic conference on Fatima last year 👍.
 
Pretty sure it’s just a double shot of manufactured outrage and hyperbole.
 
oh come on, You cant speak for the CAF membership.

OP, this is a friar glorifying God in song, and sharing it . If his rap reaches abd touches even one person,

then that is a wonderful work.
 
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its not in the church. Whats your stance on King David and his tamborines. His relatives werent impressed. However God was impressed enough to include it n His Sacred Scripture
 
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You obviously don’t understand how serious this is.
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I simply do not agree with how serious it is. Can you show me any where the Church has declared rap music sinful? The only serious issue is Catholics going beyond Church teaching for the chance to denigrate a religious who they (not the Church) deem too… something.

Unless one has made a similar commitment of his (or her) whole life to religious vocation, I think it highly inappropriate to judge based on nothing the Church has ever taught.

There is no “norm” to ministry. The very concept is antithetical to the concept of what is catholic.
 
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PureKathleen46 said:
What ever happened to ave maria. This is sick! Give me a break you want this in church
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The monk is not rapping at Mass.
He is not displacing Ave Maria; there’s room in the faith for more than one type of music.

Nothing “sick” about trying to reach people with different musical tastes, unless you mean sick in the colloquial sense as meaning super impressive.

If you don’t like it, no one is making you listen. Can’t understand why you’re getting so worked up over it.
 
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