here is one headline:
Muller accuses: they have driven out Jesus.
Yup. sounds about right.
And maybe the Pope didn't say Jesus wasn't God, as one atheistic writer claims he did, but why is he not saying: Sorry that guy misquoted me? Because maybe it was true?
but today's post by SandroMagister really gets it right: It has an essay by an actual missionary (not a German PC theologian/bishop type who projects his own ideas onto the tribes, and then finds a convenient "indigenous" type to "prove" it.)
A Missionary Called By the Pope To the Synod On the Amazon Explains What the Church Gets Wrong
Now, I was a physician, and didn't preach, (well, I preached nutrition and medicine, but not religion) but this part has it right:
in the past, many many places kept the faith alive without priests: and he notes how catechists do this in Africa.
so what is different about the Amazon (and much of South America)?
Can you say: liberation theology and a politically correct mindset that doesn't dare try to tell people about Jesus and God.
so what is different about the Amazon (and much of South America)?
Can you say: liberation theology and a politically correct mindset that doesn't dare try to tell people about Jesus and God.
because PC anthropologists insisted that preaching religion was wrong.
Because the church, instead of making the helping part of their work something that is nourished by God's love, have morphed into a do gooder NGO without any deity.
In more than one place I have heard expressions of this kind from pastoral workers: "When people need services, they come to us (the Catholic Church), but when they look for meaning in their lives, they go to others (evangelicals etc.)".and this is the heart of the matter: the church is not only morphing into a secular NGO but those working for the church are doing it out of a vague secular mindset that has nothing to do with their internal belief system nor with the idea that you are doing God's work.
which is where celibacy comes into it: it echoes Paul who said not being married allowed one to devote oneself entirely to God's work. It also allows you time for prayer etc.
There are many good, holy pastors, and many holy Orthodox and Eastern Catholic priests who are married, so I don't see a problem with married priests per se: but the Amazon meeting is not about married men becoming priests per se, but about destroying the old rigid church where people actually believe that stuff about Jesus being God and coming into the world to tell us God loves us and if we accept this, that God would help us to live a moral, upright life.
But the Amazon synod is not about the Amazon, but about the "reformers" who want to morph the church into a secular organization and using the priest shortage as an excuse to undermine the priesthood in order to do so.
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