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ncronline.org/news/vatican/hierarchy-deeply-damaged-within
A friend recently linked this article. I only have a cursory familiarity with NCR, but I do know that sometimes they can be a little on the ridiculous side with some articles and author choices. However, I have found a few sober-minded articles that attempt to offer something meaningful in light of the great crisis in the leadership ethos of the Church.
Personally, I agree with many that the inexcusable way the sex abuse issues were handled by bishops has something to do with a defective, and anti-Christian, culture among the clergy who were ordained to serve the People of God in both Charity and Justice. With all eagerness, I hope that whatever mindset in the Catholic Church’s leadership that has played a significant role in getting us all where we are be cast out and trampled underfoot by the Holy Spirit, the sooner the better.
As rare as they are in public, the most encouraging thing to me is the fire of lay men and women who are serious about taking greater initiative – as is their place as the People of God – and demanding transparency and Spirit-led change in the Church’s leadership, while at the same time not relinquishing their love and respect for Holy Mother Church and her authority. Unfortunately, what I most often see is “culturally Catholic” men and women, already rebellious, using this as some sort of bashing stick to call for all kinds of short-sighted “solutions” to this deep problem of leadership (e.g. women ordinations, etc.), motivated more by a desire to see the Church capitulate to follies of the current age out of political correctness and political bias than a love for the Gospel or apostolic Tradition.
I hope those among the faithful who really love our Church and see its beauty behind the terrible ugliness of the actions of some of its members (of all levels of authority) join together and truly reclaim what it means to be of the order of laymen, for the good of all the Church of God – men, women, laity, priests, bishops, and our Holy Father. We must do our part in Christ’s pruning the weeds and disease from the Church. Whatever lies ahead for the Catholic Church’s leadership and the changes it undergoes, we need not fear that it will still be our beloved Roman Catholic Church, still devoted to the unassailable Truth of Jesus Christ.
A friend recently linked this article. I only have a cursory familiarity with NCR, but I do know that sometimes they can be a little on the ridiculous side with some articles and author choices. However, I have found a few sober-minded articles that attempt to offer something meaningful in light of the great crisis in the leadership ethos of the Church.
Personally, I agree with many that the inexcusable way the sex abuse issues were handled by bishops has something to do with a defective, and anti-Christian, culture among the clergy who were ordained to serve the People of God in both Charity and Justice. With all eagerness, I hope that whatever mindset in the Catholic Church’s leadership that has played a significant role in getting us all where we are be cast out and trampled underfoot by the Holy Spirit, the sooner the better.
As rare as they are in public, the most encouraging thing to me is the fire of lay men and women who are serious about taking greater initiative – as is their place as the People of God – and demanding transparency and Spirit-led change in the Church’s leadership, while at the same time not relinquishing their love and respect for Holy Mother Church and her authority. Unfortunately, what I most often see is “culturally Catholic” men and women, already rebellious, using this as some sort of bashing stick to call for all kinds of short-sighted “solutions” to this deep problem of leadership (e.g. women ordinations, etc.), motivated more by a desire to see the Church capitulate to follies of the current age out of political correctness and political bias than a love for the Gospel or apostolic Tradition.
I hope those among the faithful who really love our Church and see its beauty behind the terrible ugliness of the actions of some of its members (of all levels of authority) join together and truly reclaim what it means to be of the order of laymen, for the good of all the Church of God – men, women, laity, priests, bishops, and our Holy Father. We must do our part in Christ’s pruning the weeds and disease from the Church. Whatever lies ahead for the Catholic Church’s leadership and the changes it undergoes, we need not fear that it will still be our beloved Roman Catholic Church, still devoted to the unassailable Truth of Jesus Christ.