Today's second reading question

[Shelion]

The Church is being censored and pays fines every time a priest talks “on the edge” about these issues (being wrong) on national media (TV, radio).

I’m not sure if that happens in Poland though, I mean, I read regularly the news here, and haven’t heard that. But it’s so unsurprising that this would happen… However, I think I’m sure that even though we are part of the EU (which I detest btw), people are not arrested or punished with fines for speaking out. And the reason is that I observe the situation rather closely (my husband even more so), and some people do talk against it publically. What happens is massive online hate, particularly on social media, partly in mainstream mass propaganda media etc. People lose jobs over it etc. And more and more often people anti-LGBT are sued for something or other (sometimes absurd), while the colorful guys destroy property and encourage assault or murder on social media (no joke).

As for priests, there are some who are very loud about it, mostly on youtube or some internet tv or Catholic newspapers. The same thing happens to them that happens to laymen, but as yet, no legal action unless sued (no automatic jail or fine because law was broken) - that will come too, I guess. Unless we stop them.

After the revolution contrrevolution comes - and as they say revolution eats its own children (at least that’s what we say here).

As for the reading and homilies - sometimes though the readings concern sin, or mortal sin, or Hell etc - perhaps it should be more reflected in general - in places where it’s not.
Sometimes episcopate issues a letter that is read instead of the homily, and there are times when it’s against LGBT related stuff. There are bishops and archbishops who talk about it from the pulpit - after all this is a very serious threat to families for instance, for kids and teens and so on - I don’t think we need some very special readings for that.

But all in all I agree with you of course.

 

[Loud-living-dogma]

I don’t know if that’s the reason for omitting verses in a parish setting, but I was told by a monk that his monastic community chooses to remove “offensive” verses from psalms (ps 136,8-9 for example) on the off chance that someone who knows nothing about Christ attends the office, so that it is not their first contact with Christian faith…

This is a very interesting idea. Referring to another thread, maybe there shouldn’t be fundraising during the homily, in case it’s someone’s first or last exposure to Catholicism, or to Christianity in general.