An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate comments I've had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the reasons why Catholic kids leave the church is that our catechism and worship styles and preaching for the past fifty years did not prepare them for the [...]
Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam and Eve One of the interesting things about conducing a parish mission is how many people stay behind to ask really probing questions. Last evening here in Indianapolis a man named Frank asked me if it was wrong not to believe certain things the church teaches. He's a [...]
Remembering that the New Testament is hidden in the old and the old is made manifest in the New, yesterday's feast provides three powerful images from the past that converge at Pentecost: Wind, Fire and Witness. The mighty rushing wind connects back to the first day of creation where in the first verses of the Bible [...]
Cut Off Catholicism vs. Continuous Catholicism In the midst of composing this series on what's killing American Catholicism I am not only reading George Weigel's Evangelical Catholicism and Sherrie Weddell's Forming Intentional Disciples but on the flight out to Indianapolis read Russell Shaw's American Church -- The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America. Shaw's [...]
Sorry for the break from blogging, but parish and family life have been very busy this last week. What's killing American Catholicism? This is the third part of a series. The problems all begin with the letter 'C'. The first part was Cultural Catholicism. The problem when people are more cultural than Catholic. The Catholic faith transcends [...]
I'm continuing a series on things that are destroying American Catholicism. They all begin with the letter 'C'--as does the solution to the problem. You can use the 'Categories' tool to pull up the whole series as they are written. Here is a link to the first article in the series on Cultural Catholicism If you [...]
Reading Sherry Weddell's excellent Forming Intentional Disciples is making me think about the American church and what ails her. Can anybody deny that there is a sickness in the body ecclesia? When 50% of Catholics vote for a man who stoutly defends same sex marriage and partial birth abortion can we say that Catholics in America are okay? [...]
Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado is the founder of Veritas Vestments. She holds a degree in Ecclesiastical Haberdashery from Salamanca University. She has done the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella three times on horseback and is engaged to the famous matador, Senor Augusto Torquemada. Listen hon, you never going to believe this, but my friends in USA [...]
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Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado is the founder of Veritas Vestments. She holds a degree in Ecclesiastical Haberdashery from Salamanca University. She has done the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella three times on horseback and is engaged to the famous matador, Senor Augusto Torquemada. OK Hon, I know Mantilla's a nobody. I don't do nothing but make [...]