One of the many problems with the Roman Catholic church for converts like me is that they tolerate way too many unbelieving secularists in their clergy and membership and ignore their sin. That Ted Kennedy was given such a glorious funeral presided over by the bishop of Boston is proof of the moral incompetence of the Roman Catholic church in Boston.
Ted Kennedy's Catholic Funeral: Two Views From the Hierarchy
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The Kennedy family is deserving of solace and respect by the bishop of the catholic church only so far as they show support and obedience to it. The funeral was a shameful display of the power of wealth and secular politics trumping religious faith. There will be a great many faithful catholics who die and are buried without the local bishop attending personally, but they make it for this horrid soul? This kind of hypocritical posturing is largely why the RCC is sick in the West.
Guess it also is due in part to the clergy shortage they have, which is largely due to the RCC using psychiatrists for screening potential clergy, not realizing what a leftwing cesspool that industry is.
Well qualified men who want to be priests are often turned down as having sexual issues if they don't masturbate regularly or have had premarital relations or cruise bars when in fact it is testimony to the love of the church these men have and of their faithfulness.
Consequently, in the major urban areas with long established catholic populations the church is having serious issues recruiting priests, nuns and deacons.
But in the areas where Catholicism is taken seriously and the shrinks are kindly excluded from any input as to who can be in clergy the numbers of clergy are booming. And they don't have issues like treating unfaithful powerful people with undue respect, nor do they have problems with hidden scandal, at lest not for long. They expose it and move on.
Hendershott and White: Traditional Catholicism Is Winning - WSJ
Still, the future is encouraging. There were 467 new priestly ordinations in the U.S. last year, according to a survey by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, up from 442 a decade ago.
While some of the highest numbers of new priests are in the Catholic-majority cities of Newark, N.J., and Philadelphia, ordinations in Washington, D.C. (18 last year) and Chicago (26) also are booming. The biggest gains are not only in traditional Catholic strongholds. In Lincoln, Neb., Catholics constitute only 16% of the population yet have some of the strongest numbers of ordinations. In 2011, there were 10 men ordained as priests in Lincoln.
What explains the trend? Nearly 20 years ago, Archbishop Elden Curtiss, then leader of the Omaha, Neb., diocese, suggested that when dioceses are unambiguous and allow a minimum of dissent about the male, celibate priesthood, more candidates answer the call to the priesthood. Our preliminary research on the correlates of priestly ordinations reveals that the dioceses with the largest numbers of new priests are led by courageous bishops with faithful and inspirational vocations offices.
Leadership and adherence to church doctrine certainly distinguish the bishop of Lincoln, the Most Rev. Fabian Bruskewitz. He made national news in 1996 when he stated that members of dissident Catholic groups including Call to Action and Catholics for Choice had automatically excommunicated themselves from the church.
The largest diocese in the past tended to have clergy that put the finances and social concerns of church members higher in priority than the teachings and morality of the church. The Irish Catholics in my experience are the worst for this. I have met so many Irish Americans that have zero faith in the church and have only been catholic as a statement of their Irishness and opposition to the Anglican church and all WASPery in general.
This is particularly true in Ireland where a great many crimes have been committed and left hidden to 'protect' the church. But this is not protecting the church at all, and all these scandals should be laid bare to the world. It will hurt the church in these areas but it will rebound over time. The church has always survived such scandals, but it cannot survive slow moral rot from within and the Irish Catholic church stinks of gangrenous putrid rot.
Its enemies have been empowered by the churches moral weakness to actually have it banned in some places, which is their primary objective, something unimaginable only twenty years ago by most Irishmen.
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I believe the Lord will cleanse His church in the West with a firey persecution. It will be all the more intense because Anglo Catholics in the USA are naïve and hypocrital. They hold to the forms of faith and tradition but deny the power of true faith and this will cost them dearly when the time comes, if it comes.
But perhaps it wont. Perhaps scandals like this can purge the church of its rot enough that the Lord wont send fire down from Heaven (that is a metaphor, you stupid libtards).
Till then the rest of us Catholics have to endure the well deserved contempt and dismissal till other crimes by the secularists themselves cause the public to largely forget what the unbelieving pretenders have done to the church first from the INSIDE.
.........proof please
