tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post4678824536173060548..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: The Statistical decline of the ChurchLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-66500634024560392482018-02-11T09:39:31.213+00:002018-02-11T09:39:31.213+00:00The decline kicked in before that. Cardinal Heenan...The decline kicked in before that. Cardinal Heenan is very good on the American problem as early as the 1950's. He also encountered problems with John XIII and the Italian curia in 1960. (Italy and West Germany were both vassal states controlled by Washington). In crude terms, the Council was a a sort of "debt for equity" swap and there was nothing anyone could do about it.Sadie Vacantisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823532366874114366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-18584413950616191452018-02-04T13:15:59.189+00:002018-02-04T13:15:59.189+00:00Once again the mask slips, Savoranola. You want us...Once again the mask slips, Savoranola. You want us to think you are a sincere reader who deserves engagement, but you some out with a statement about my views you know perfectly well, as a regular reader, is false. Please stop commenting on my blog.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-27550525898789067452018-01-26T14:24:07.599+00:002018-01-26T14:24:07.599+00:00is it really quite as simple as: Traditional Catho...is it really quite as simple as: Traditional Catholicism all good and perfect in every way (so that only idiots would ever want to change anything in it), the modern world all bad? Many people in the modern world who probably do not subscribe to a religion are more and more concerned for the natural world and its survival, seeing the human race as stewards of creation, as the churches should have taught, but did not always, even encouraging the opposite of view of dominance and lordship. Is this not a sign of an authentic God-centred spirituality? You cannot confine the latter to believing doctines and practising rituals. Religion can so easily became a matter of mere Sunday observance with no connection with the rest of life - and what is the point of that?Savonarolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547523172291007631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-55067871045666537622018-01-26T08:08:45.583+00:002018-01-26T08:08:45.583+00:00More please Joseph! We need your clarity.More please Joseph! We need your clarity.Susan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18067264840636170453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-36188085929534237372018-01-25T07:48:58.838+00:002018-01-25T07:48:58.838+00:00In a sense, the 1980s saw a revolution in terms of...In a sense, the 1980s saw a revolution in terms of ideology. The defeat of Soviet Communism and subsequent ending of the Cold War, meant that people no longer saw the world as split by ideological differences that represented the Good and the Bad very clearly. I wonder whether this has caused many people to adopt a relativistic worldview - ideals and idealism are just not part of culture and religion is, consequently, incomprehensible.Joanna Francescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04129263225442222415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-47869975668796410962017-01-23T18:04:27.136+00:002017-01-23T18:04:27.136+00:00Every decade brings fresh challenges to the Church...Every decade brings fresh challenges to the Church. But the 1980s can't be described as a social revolution, and the statistics tell us that the decline began in the arly 1960s - 20 years earlier.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-67176079379880768402017-01-23T17:32:59.973+00:002017-01-23T17:32:59.973+00:00However, one could as well say "The 1980s saw...However, one could as well say "The 1980s saw a social revolution which was was fundamentally hostile, not only to the Church, but to all kinds of institutions essential to social cohesion. It was precisely this moment which the Church chose to give up, or seriously tone down, its campaign against these values. The new values could, I suppose, be summarised as materialism, or alternatively a conviction that the market would resolve all problems; and an individualism which rejected all kindness. On the one hand, the Church seemed to be doing well, with full seminaries and lots of converts over earlier decades; on the other, there was pressure to concentrate on the defeat of communism and socialism at the expense of any efforts at alertness to the scandal of sexual abuse, or of efforts to pay any attention to social justice." Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923738357897764154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-48722584914926939282013-04-20T10:11:17.544+01:002013-04-20T10:11:17.544+01:00Personally, I think we will, as Pope Benedict XV1 ...Personally, I think we will, as Pope Benedict XV1 said, have to accept a smaller Church, and start again.<br /><br />A Church in which Catholic Faith and doctrine are clearly and authoratively taught to generations and expressed though a living Continuing liturgy, whether that standardised by St Gregory the Great or the N.O. re-formed in line with inherent intent of Sacrosanctum Concilium.<br />They will not be so different! Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-28587853508661545092013-04-19T14:09:53.680+01:002013-04-19T14:09:53.680+01:00It is now becoming increasingly difficult for Cath...It is now becoming increasingly difficult for Catholic to live in the spirit of the world and to continue to be a faithful Catholic. Sooner or later they will have to chose between the Church and (post) modern society. This has already started to happen with gay marriage and things are likely to get much worse. PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16518402555593461596noreply@blogger.com