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Why is there no sense of personal accountability to the greater Church community for American Catholics? I ponder and ask this as the Church visible appears so weak, out of shape, disconnected from a daily personal discipleship faith walk with Jesus Christ, and amiss from the mission of the Church to support one another, to be a lamp on the hill and to evangelize the culture about us.
The statistics (Church attendance, contracepting Catholic couples, cohabitating Catholic couples, …), Catholic adjectives (lapsed, cafeteria, progressive, heterodox, liberal, …), attitudes (“What goes on in _______ is between God and me”, “This is my personal buisness”, “Who are you to judge?”, “Mind your own buisness”), and the hidden isolation, loneliness and hardship of the most vulnerable (elderly, under/unemployed, widow, single parents, mentally ill, …), all evidence that the sense of community and personal accountability is sorely lacking. Everyone does their own thing, …oblivious, refusing, limiting to what extent that they will be joined to the Body of Christ in service, sacrifice and personal accountability for offenses against the Church – a deeply ingrained American ethos?
What is the solution?
The statistics (Church attendance, contracepting Catholic couples, cohabitating Catholic couples, …), Catholic adjectives (lapsed, cafeteria, progressive, heterodox, liberal, …), attitudes (“What goes on in _______ is between God and me”, “This is my personal buisness”, “Who are you to judge?”, “Mind your own buisness”), and the hidden isolation, loneliness and hardship of the most vulnerable (elderly, under/unemployed, widow, single parents, mentally ill, …), all evidence that the sense of community and personal accountability is sorely lacking. Everyone does their own thing, …oblivious, refusing, limiting to what extent that they will be joined to the Body of Christ in service, sacrifice and personal accountability for offenses against the Church – a deeply ingrained American ethos?
What is the solution?