tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post7939294351547752..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: "More terrifying statements from Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-48856493207714198782013-11-13T18:03:38.640-05:002013-11-13T18:03:38.640-05:00Maybe you've heard priests say the following a...Maybe you've heard priests say the following as well. I have. Namely, that if there's no Catholic church around, you can go to a Protestant one, and if you are on your death bed, you can look to the ministrations of a Protestant minister if there is no Catholic priest around.<br /><br />Whatever the canonical status of such contingencies may be, they cannot be considered helpful by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, they promote and attitude of indifference toward the Church and her Sacraments.Sheldonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-7716832703604784382013-11-13T13:08:44.004-05:002013-11-13T13:08:44.004-05:00Dear Sheldon. I know of Catholics in my area who ...Dear Sheldon. I know of Catholics in my area who have gone to Confession and accused their own selves of serious sin for missing Mass and, instead, attending a prot service.<br /><br />Two different Priests, one a Pastor, told the Penitent that there was no sin involved for they went to as service on Sunday.<br /><br />No, I am not jokingMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-48069595476312686622013-11-12T22:52:20.355-05:002013-11-12T22:52:20.355-05:00Ralph,
Partly through your comments, partly throu...Ralph,<br /><br />Partly through your comments, partly through my own observations, I've been coming to the conclusion that those people have been right all along who have been warning us about the "Protestantization" of the post-conciliar Catholic Church. <br /><br />I used to hear or read that attribution, but not be able to make much sense out of it. My problem more recently is that it's beginning to make way too much sense.<br /><br />The RC Church has become "Protestant" today in the sense that few Catholics anymore seem to think that church membership counts for much. If you're attending a Prot church, you're good enough. If you're not attending any church, you're still good enough. As long as you aren't an embarrassingly gauche traditionalist, who insists that the Catholic Church is THE Church and the clerics from all other traditions are only laymen dressed up in vestments play acting.Sheldonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-80480935701122789512013-11-12T09:05:59.983-05:002013-11-12T09:05:59.983-05:00Maradiaga is full of answers, as are all modernist...Maradiaga is full of answers, as are all modernists, but the one question that he does not seem up to answering is, "why should anyone want to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church in particular?"<br /><br />Being a member of the Church has been a great career maker for Maradiaga. As executive manager of the Tegucigalpa branch office, he has no shortage of flunkeys to kiss his ring and peel his grapes for him amidst his neverending search for truth. But for the average truthseeker on the street, Maradiaga's version of the Church offers nothing at all that the rest of the faith joints don't offer. And with the others you get to sleep late on Sunday mornings!<br /><br />Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.com