tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post4349402304777615908..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Frank talk from archbishop of Detroit: "We are a shrinking community"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-54865243240373009722014-06-06T09:55:05.788-04:002014-06-06T09:55:05.788-04:00Brian,
That's excellent news about the Domini...Brian,<br /><br />That's excellent news about the Dominican Sisters assuming control of the school at St. Isaac Jogues! They're a great surge of positive energy and orthodoxy these days.Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-1561497168526304002014-06-06T08:52:18.500-04:002014-06-06T08:52:18.500-04:00Finally, a light in the darkness! The Dominican S...Finally, a light in the darkness! The Dominican Sisters are assuming control of a school in AOD - St. Isaac Jogues in St Clair Shores. See link: http://stisaacjoguesschool.org/<br />It will take generations to rebuild the Church in Detroit. The best place to start is with the young.Brian Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-58040197506854626682014-06-04T08:42:02.879-04:002014-06-04T08:42:02.879-04:00Thank God the comments are moderated, since the sy...Thank God the comments are moderated, since the system gives one absolutely no way to determine whether one has successfully been posted.Rick DeLanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675522207482535734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-40209729017881679932014-06-04T08:41:02.928-04:002014-06-04T08:41:02.928-04:00Archbishop Vigneron, Michael Voris isn't shrin...Archbishop Vigneron, Michael Voris isn't shrinking.<br /><br />Perhaps the turnaround specialist you need is right at hand.<br /><br />Your predecessor has failed, Archbishop, and the theology and ecclesiology which He imbibed has failed, and you must change it. If you wish to begin by forgetting the corporate turnaround analogies that would be a wonderful first step.<br /><br />God deliver us from the disorienting effects of the modernism we have breathed in like air for almost two generations now.Rick DeLanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675522207482535734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-12366815219012069792014-06-03T19:33:09.672-04:002014-06-03T19:33:09.672-04:00The ONE area growing in the Detroit Archdiocese is...The ONE area growing in the Detroit Archdiocese is the Catholics who call themselves "traditional Catholics". Grotto is one example. Sacred Heart in Imlay City is another. Maybe the real "frank talk" should come in "Why are Catholics leaving modern churches but traditional parishes hold and grow?"<br />Wouldn't that be a good question?Netmilsmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16100626389916221972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-59233480750082326672014-06-03T14:21:35.207-04:002014-06-03T14:21:35.207-04:00No no no. Calm down.
When an archbishop or cardi...No no no. Calm down.<br /><br />When an archbishop or cardinal talks this way, it does not mean that he is about to pull the trigger on the Great Renewal and return us all to neo-traditionalism, if one can even imagine such a thing. Vigneron may fancy himself a CEO, but CEO Bergoglio might have other ideas. Vigneron is actually a middle manager, and middle managers who do not tow the corporate line find their butts skidding across the sidewalk outside the corporate revolving door before they can proclaim the current pope a candidate for canonization.<br /><br />So whatever this middle manager apparatchik may say, the bottom line is that he is going to take his lead from the Big Guy in Rome, like all of the other middle manager apparatchiks. <br />The Big Guy may want to trend toward a synodocracy, but that does not mean that bishops will actually be allowed to think for themselves, and Vigneron is probably not inclined to do so anyway. Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.com