Monsignors' Mutiny

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unafraid said:
This is Dan Brown-style factless sensationalism packaged to appear as legitimate journalism, and the implications of it are alarming. Unconfirmed anonymous inuendo being promulgated as factual reportage and cynically being fed to deliberately wound the Roman Catholic Church. Why? It is malicious, and it is premeditated.

Just another spear thrust into the side of the Church. They smell blood, and they are bloodthirsty. Step back, and gather your wits when you read these things, because they are designed to confuse and demoralize us. Please beware of the cunning of our enemies. They have malice in their hearts. In their incivility is shown their vile natures.

Always remember that we obtain our Baptism from the priests of our Holy Church; they do not. We receive our Eucharist from the priests of our Church; they do not. We confess our sins, we get married…we receive Last Rights from priests of our Roman Catholic Church; they do not. It is OUR faith, OUR religion, and the beauty and majesty found therein is OURS, not theirs. Who are they to attack, with impunity, OUR religion, more than any other institution, with lies and unsubstantiated slanders?

We all know that our Roman Catholic Church is the one true religion in which the full deposit of the Christian faith is held, venerated, and expressed fully and sacramentally. Evil does not seek to destroy another evil; evil seeks to destroy only what is good. The Roman Catholic Church is the target of attacks because it is the last standing impediment to the moral relativism, nihilism and atheism espoused by this world’s elites. It is simply Good vs. Evil. Please don’t let them fool you.

Go into church, and go up to the altar, and kneel, then look around and take in the breadth of your religion, and what it means to you. What they would destroy is something which they can’t even fathom. But we can. We are the Church. Don’t allow them to infuence what your heart knows to be true, good, and holy. Stand your ground.
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unafraid said:
Always remember that we obtain our Baptism from the priests of our Holy Church; they do not. We receive our Eucharist from the priests of our Church; they do not. We confess our sins, we get married…we receive Last Rights from priests of our Roman Catholic Church; they do not. It is OUR faith, OUR religion, and the beauty and majesty found therein is OURS, not theirs. Who are they to attack, with impunity, OUR religion, more than any other institution, with lies and unsubstantiated slanders?
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Who specifically are the “they” you speak of in this paragraph? And, might some of the enemies of whch you speak be Catholics themselves, thus receiving all the same sacraments the rest of Catholicism receives from our clergy? :confused:
 
Tigg said:
I wouldn’t give too much credence to an article that calls the College of Cardinals an exclusive men’s club.
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Well, it’s not an entire incorrect description. The College of Cardinals is certainly exclusive, consisting of a very small number of Catholic clergymen personally elevated to that position by the Pope himself.

The personal relationships among the Cardinals may or may not resemble those of the members of a club. I don’t know. The U.S. Senate has BTW also been described as an exclusive club, though no longer only for men.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Well, it’s not an entire incorrect description. The College of Cardinals is certainly exclusive, consisting of a very small number of Catholic clergymen personally elevated to that position by the Pope himself.

The personal relationships among the Cardinals may or may not resemble those of the members of a club. I don’t know. The U.S. Senate has BTW also been described as an exclusive club, though no longer only for men.
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The phrase is however, unnecessary and problematic for an article claiming to report news.
 
jilly4ski said:
The phrase is however, unnecessary and problematic for an article claiming to report news.
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I have no doubt that you might use a better turn of phrase, but its use by that writer was not wrong.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
I have no doubt that you might use a better turn of phrase, but its use by that writer was not wrong.
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Conservatives may just be pointing out that if you sleep with the dogs, you’re going to get up with fleas. They’re not wrong about that basic fact. They’re wrong about a lot of things, but they’re not wrong about that.
 
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