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Your comments are reflective of the last 2,000 years of history of the Church. During the Arian Heresy, a large number of bishops sides with Arius.You have bishops teaching heresey
Rerum Novarum in 1891 (as in, 128 years ago) set the base for social issues, with several encyclicals since then; people still don’t get it.
The issue of female deacons is still a matter under study, as it relates back to the earliest Church. The Church has had married clergy for 2,000 years as well as celibate clergy, and the Roman rite has married clergy now. Not sure what your issue is there.
Yes, there is evil in the Church; I don’t know who said it but about 6 decades ago I learned that wherever Christ is, the devil is not far behind. You are afraid? I trust Christ.
There are ovver 17,200 parishes. You don’t know enough to make the statement
. That is offensive. I have been to Mass in many parishes in a number of states and And found them reverent.But the reverence is not in most cases.
But you want to talk about lack of reverence? In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s I was an altar boy; and innumerable times the pastor would come in for the 6:30 a.m. Mass inebriated, and consistently would whip through that Mass in under 15 minutes. that is irreverent. And he was not alone by any stretch of the imagination as to whipping through Masses.
I don’t need to ask my bishops what they have done to increase reverence. They have done it.
How many priests have come from your parish? The OF lends itself to lukewarm catechism? you are really full of opinions, all unsubstantiated by facts.