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The ROI's break with the Vatican; good for the Church.

  • 20-02-2012 01:23PM
    #1
    HamletOrHecuba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭


    The logic in this article is flawless.

    http://lxoa.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/ireland-should-sever-diplomatic-relations-with-the-vatican/

    "The Irish Church is going through a really historic period of transition, which could make or break or it. It needs maximum temporal freedom from state intrusion in its constitution and internal affairs.

    Indeed it would be best for the Irish government to simply break off diplomatic relations with the Vatican completely. By closing their embassy to the Vatican, Irish politicians have already done the Church a massive favour, only they’re too stupid to realize it. Let Irish Catholics be intelligent enough to remain one step ahead."


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  • #2
    Michael G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Michael G


    The blog makes a lot of sense. From what I have seen, over the last thirty years many of our bishops and most of our older priests (generally those over sixty) have not evolved in their thinking or taken in any new ideas.

    The only other occupation in which people have been able to survive like that, without evolving in their heads, is the establishment news media. Outside the Church, the elderly adherents of the www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie and http://we-are-church-ireland.org/ and the older generation in RTE and the Irish Times, hardly anyone under sixty now believes in the old optimistic lefty idea that we were all getting better and better and just needed to love ourselves more.

    The "Spirit of Vatican II" movement reflects in its own remote way the fashion of the 1970s, when Trotsky, instead of being seen accurately as a murderous little ****, was praised for his idea of a "permanent revolution". The 1960s and 1970s were when Pol Pot was in Paris, picking up the ideas that made him think that a country could be reinvented from nothing.

    At the same time, fuddled young priests, nuns, brothers and prelates thought the Holy Spirit was telling them, personally, that the Church had been mistaken for about seventeen centuries, and disastrously mistaken for the last four of those. Some of them thought it was their mission to say so; others, perhaps, saw that doing so might advance them in the Church.

    From what I can see, younger active Catholics now, and men and women entering the religious life and the priesthood these days, seem to be unaffected by and indeed unaware of the funny mood that took hold in the last forty years.
    Providence, perhaps.


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