“There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church,” the Pope said citing Dominican priest Father Yves Marie-Joseph Congar. “For a ‘different Church’, the Pope urged all to invoke the Holy Spirit with greater fervour and frequency and humbly listen to Him.”
I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.
Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:6-12
And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.
And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.
Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
"Different" only in the sense that I want the church to actually be what She's supposed to be, rather than what we pitiful humans have a tendency of warping Her into.Don’t we all want “a different church” in one way or another?
unless you work in a pre VII parish, some of those will always be the status quo.Don’t we all want “a different church” in one way or another? I’d like one that sings the propers, that isn’t haunted by abuse, that treats its employees better, that’s growing everywhere and shrinking nowhere, isn’t in bed with politicians, beats everyone else at caring for the poor and homeless, etc. etc.
the pre_VII parish "pay up, pray up, and shut up"
Many twentieth century theologians rejected the scholastics in favor of ambiguity, emotion, and the subjective. For them it was not a matter of preferring one “presentational format” to another. They rejected as corruption what faithful Catholics had always seen as perfection.
when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain . . .
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