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Friday, October 14, 2022
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Softies
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Softies: Saturday is the perfect day for softies: soft boiled eggs. Its a family tradition around our place, and the precision that goes into getting...
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If you want an inkling of what may be going wrong with the modern–and frankly, post-Vatican II, the Edsel of ecclesiastical redesigns–Church,just try reading this: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/12/26/pope-franciss-africa-problem/. “Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development”? We ignore the existence of a curia, and Rome itself in its temporal agency, at our souls's perils, one fears. Perhaps Francis, et al., really should consider not why the Church is lurching to a halt in the West, but why it appears to be flourishing in the Asian Southeast and Africa.
Tom Sheridan, WY
PS An added ingredient to making perfect softies–elevation, as in altitude.
One never really ceases being a Catholic. Do I practice? Let's just say that if the Eucharist were still being celebrated in the catacombs, I'd be there in a shot.
"The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine—but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."
On the original comment, Douthat recently wrote an article with that theme in the NYT, but then he generously responded to a criticism of the same article by somebody citing the African church in a different journal in his Twitter feed.
Appreciating your insight, I hesitate to add more. I do keep hoping we can see the primacy of charity. That would go a long way to remedying so many ills, spiritual and otherwise.
Tom, as an aside, you should register a blogger account. You don't need a blog to do so, but that would allow me to update my settings on this blog so that they would be posted automatically without me passing them through. Your insights are always welcome, and I have it set in this fashion so that I can catch spam "comments" rather than have them posted (spambots selling things).
If you don't care to, it's no problem. I only note it as that way your comments would be posted automatically, and you wouldn't have to wait for me.
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If you want an inkling of what may be going wrong with the modern–and frankly, post-Vatican II, the Edsel of ecclesiastical redesigns–Church,just try reading this: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/12/26/pope-franciss-africa-problem/. “Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development”? We ignore the existence of a curia, and Rome itself in its temporal agency, at our souls's perils, one fears. Perhaps Francis, et al., really should consider not why the Church is lurching to a halt in the West, but why it appears to be flourishing in the Asian Southeast and Africa.
Tom
Sheridan, WY
PS An added ingredient to making perfect softies–elevation, as in altitude.
Tom, with this comment, I have to ask if you and I are coreligious. I've thought so for some time, but this would seem to seal it.
One never really ceases being a Catholic. Do I practice? Let's just say that if the Eucharist were still being celebrated in the catacombs, I'd be there in a shot.
"The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine—but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."
–Belloc
Tom
Sheridan, WY
On the original comment, Douthat recently wrote an article with that theme in the NYT, but then he generously responded to a criticism of the same article by somebody citing the African church in a different journal in his Twitter feed.
"Let's just say that if the Eucharist were still being celebrated in the catacombs, I'd be there in a shot."
Ah, but they are. Each generation gets its own catacombs, right where they are.
Appreciating your insight, I hesitate to add more. I do keep hoping we can see the primacy of charity. That would go a long way to remedying so many ills, spiritual and otherwise.
Tom
Sheridan, WY
Tom, as an aside, you should register a blogger account. You don't need a blog to do so, but that would allow me to update my settings on this blog so that they would be posted automatically without me passing them through. Your insights are always welcome, and I have it set in this fashion so that I can catch spam "comments" rather than have them posted (spambots selling things).
If you don't care to, it's no problem. I only note it as that way your comments would be posted automatically, and you wouldn't have to wait for me.
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