Priest arrested in Las Vegas church attack

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This was our parish administrator and this is my parish church. My neice was in the school lockdown working with the after school program when this went down. What Asbestos Mango says has a great deal of truth in it, but it isn’t quite as one-sided as that. I don’t feel like I can say a lot more, other than that the media has sensationalized it (by the same token, it IS pretty shocking), but we need to be careful apportioning more blame to one than the other. From my standpoint, blame is fairly balanced. Pray for our parish. And pray for the children of the school. One little girl on the news looked pole-axed at the news and her parents should have been kicked in the butt for letting the reporter talk to her.
 
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That “ecclesiastical army” who marched out of the seminaries before the 1950s eventually became the bishops who ordained these modern priests. I believe the Church was lulled into a sense of complacency long before Vatican II.
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I agree totally.

The 1880’s to 1950’s church is romanticized today as if it were a golden age. These were real people with all the faults real people have, the church of today is the spiritual child of the church then.

Lest we forget, every bishop is named by the Pope of Rome and they have all come up through the same process of development. The best and brightest are usually sent to Rome for further studies and out of that bunch the bishops are usually eventually chosen. The bishops who shepherded the church during the liturgical renewal period and the vocations collapse were selected and trained for the most part under Pius XII, and some much earlier.

The current crop were almost entirely developed under the watchful eyes of John Paul the Great, himself a 1940’s era priest. The modern episcopate does not have a self-perpetuating identity of it’s own, it’s root and heart are in the Eternal City.

The church of today is a direct extension of the ‘golden age’ church between the two Vatican Councils. It is what it is because of decisions and ideas embraced then.
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