Has anyone taken the time to check out the various Facebook “likes” of our official Diocese of Rochester newspaper, the Catholic Courier? In particular, I wish to direct your attention to the one below:
Given the National cAtholic Reporter’s various editorial positions at odds with Catholic teaching, shouldn’t our diocesan paper refrain from promoting this very anti-Catholic publication?
The Courier also “likes” America and U.S. cAtholic magazines, a.k.a. NcR Lite.
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Dr. K: you do an excellent job turning over rocks and discovering some pretty nasty things living under them (shinning a light in the darkness, so to speak). Thank you for this service. It is much appreciated.
I agree, Bernie, the good doctor does an excellent job. Sadly, each time he posts I wind up more and more depressed!
Hopefully the “like” of the NCR at the Courier is just a misguided preference of a lowly staffperson and is not indicative of the management of the paper!
Let some light shine in on the Diocese of Rochester.
You have to see this YouTube video.
Christmas Flash Mob by Journey of Faith at South Bay Galleria – official video – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Vnt7euRF5Pg&vq=medium
“Hopefully the “like” of the NCR at the Courier is just a misguided preference of a lowly staffperson and is not indicative of the management of the paper!”
Ya!! Sure!!
“You have to see this YouTube video.”
Maybe (?) this is a model for the new evangelization!! The gospel being shouted out by the laity and not a clergyman in sight!!
I wonder if the problems of the Diocese of Rochester are common to other dioceses in parts of the U.S. (such as the Northeast) where the leftist culture has diluted the faith.
Perhaps Albany. Other regional dioceses aren’t nearly as bad.
second that.
Dr. K,
Please strike the word perhaps. Definitely Albany. Many Catholics in the Albany diocese have suffered in the same way as Rochester Catholics. Maybe more. Bishop Hubbard’s days are numbered. Let’s hope and pray that the Albany diocese gets an orthodox bishop to replace Bishop Hubbard. Ditto for Rochester.
I live in a Southern state with a small Catholic population. It seems most baptized Catholics up there now are C&E (Christmas and Easter) Catholics, or, in the words of a now-deceased priest I once knew, “Hatched, Matched, and Dispatched” Catholics, referring to their only being in church for their baptisms, marriages, and funerals. With people so tepid about their faith, even the most dynamically orthodox bishop has a tough road to hoe!
cbalducc,
Like you I now live in a southern state but originally hail from Albany. I’m always shocked but what I see and hear in the Sunday liturgies in the DOA. There is a small but faithful group of orthodox Catholics in the DOA, as there are in Rochester. I actually lived in the DOR for two years while at Becket Hall in the 1970’s. The problems in the DOR did not originate with Bishop Clark but started well before him by his predecessor. I agree with you regarding the next bishop’s challenges, both in the DOR and Albany.
From what little I know, opposition to all the modernist heresy is more organized in the DOR. I am not sure there are any web sites like this one in Albany.
Is it the case that in dioceses with large populations of baptized Catholics, there are churches that cater to people who have different “tastes” of Catholicism? For example, there is at least one parish for traditionalist Catholics who like a Latin Mass and other Catholic practices that have fallen by the wayside. On the other hand, there is at least one parish for those who prefer leftist activism and a priest who “breaks the rules”. In the middle are churches for those who don’t care one way or the other. While closing parishes in these places is unpopular, what else can you do when so many people have stopped practicing their faith?
I also wonder if the “good old days” were as good as people imagine them to be. Could it be said that when the seminaries and convents were full, there were a lot of people in them who shouldn’t have been there? Or that the political clout of the Catholic hierarchy was a poor substitute for spiritual witness?
@cbalducc
Amen! Good food for thought….
I also wonder if the “good old days” were as good as people imagine them to be. Could it be said that when the seminaries and convents were full, there were a lot of people in them who shouldn’t have been there? Or that the political clout of the Catholic hierarchy was a poor substitute for spiritual witness?
No. In fact, I don’t think anyone here thinks there were no problems in the pre-Vatican II Church. This is why I regard the period after Vatican II as a chastisement period for a Church that didn’t properly form the laity for the onslaught of modernism. It ushered in a reign of terror by non-magisterial theologians who where able to control the information and only a layman with special skills and library resources could cut through the bs. With the advent of the internet, faithful Catholics discovered tools to help them in rudimentary apologetics and lo and behold, all that Spirit of Vatican II stuff was shown for the utter emptiness that it is.
I’d also say that the establishment of the Vatican website has been a significant resource for the Church. Now countless documents are but a mouse click away for the masses.
Look at how organized the dissent after Vatican II ws and how they quickly changed parishes, seminaries and dissented from Humanae Vitae. No one has investigated the orgins but modernism had to have festered in the Church in the first half of the 20th century.
What are the Swiss bishops doing??
http://ncronline.org/node/41221
If Christ ever loosens the glue of unity, there will be a Terrible whirlwind, worse than the Protestant reformation. This cannot go on like thisuch longer.
Ray,
Merry Chrismas and to all on Cleansing Fire
Your article about the Abbot is a microcosm of what was going on in the DOR for the last 30 years. Here, they were constantly advocating local autonomy which is an excuse to promote all the heresy we are familiar with fighting. Woman’s ordination, married priests. All we’re missing is mandatory priest retirement at age 70 to promote married priests.
Come on – They have links to dozens of publications, parishes, organizations, and others – including Our Lady of Victory and St. Pius Tenth. It’s a general list. Doesn’t anyone at CF have “links” or “Likes” to objectionable sites? (If so, couldn’t one make a judgement about their “likes”?!) I think you’re being a bit unfair here.
At least you acknowledge that NcR is an objectionable site.
By liking NcR, the Catholic Courier is giving this anti-Catholic publication its stamp of approval.
Dr. K – by your logic, they are also giving their stamp of approval to Our Lady of Victory!
It’s a Catholic parish in the Diocese of Rochester. I don’t see what’s so wrong about that…
It’s a Catholic parish in the Diocese of Rochester. I don’t see what’s so wrong about that…
Exactly. I’ll guess that most of the likes are reasonably unobjectionable. But NCR is like the drop of sewage in a bottle of wine.