tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post2984357034115801510..comments2024-01-17T03:08:25.317-06:00Comments on The Progressive Catholic Voice: A Demoralizing ProcessPCV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-40623810801028475182009-11-23T16:42:23.815-06:002009-11-23T16:42:23.815-06:00And why does the Holy spirit keep sending you Pope...And why does the Holy spirit keep sending you Popes who don't agree with you? It's a mystery! Or is it?Lepantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487748842744745860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-17898923697243169412009-10-28T10:46:08.194-05:002009-10-28T10:46:08.194-05:00The PCV Editorial Team received the following e-ma...<em>The PCV Editorial Team received the following e-mail message from Roger Dick via CCCR:</em><br /><br />I think your letter is a bull’s-eye. It is precisely timed and couches hard truths in conciliatory language. I, undoubtedly, would have been less gentle.<br /> <br />What you speak of I observed firsthand at the meeting I attended at St. Richard’s. It seemed a charade, like being invited into a card game in which all the hands had already been dealt. The discussion so circumscribed as to be strangled. It was like being a janitor invited in at the last minute to help clean up at a crime scene. “Now, sir, how would you get rid of the blood on the floor?” “But wait! Shouldn’t we first be asking who got murdered? And who murdered him?”<br /> <br />I will send a copy of your letter as an endorsement.<br /> <br />RogerPCV Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-80557500195189074542009-10-25T22:45:10.875-05:002009-10-25T22:45:10.875-05:00The PCV Editorial Team received the following e-ma...<em>The PCV Editorial Team received the following e-mail message from author <a href="http://chuckpilon.com/" rel="nofollow">Charles Pilon</a>:</em><br /><br />To have any impact on the future of this archdiocese, I believe we must firmly and steadfastly rededicate ourselves to further renewal of the Church initiated by John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council – an experience that so many of us today who are older Catholics found to be enlightened, so spirited (with a capital S) and so liberating.<br /><br />Since the mid-1980’s the institutional Roman Catholic Church has experienced a severe retrogression – going backwards – to a pre-Vatican II way of life and of belief – a return to the Church of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s and, in fact, the Church of the previous 400 years.<br /><br />That version of the Catholic Church had been living defensively since the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The institutional Catholic Church by and large hadn’t moved beyond the reforming Council of Trent (1543-1563), the Syllabus of Errors proclaimed by Pius IX in 1864 and the first Vatican Council (1870). We, the Church, the Body of Christ, had become museum keepers rather than gardeners creating new life, new insight, new energy.<br /><br />John XXIII said let’s dust the furniture in this Church. Let’s open some windows and let in some fresh air. Let’s make room, he said, for faithful dissent and let’s discover new levels of understanding of what it is that we believe and stand for instead of living with blinders of absolute certitude. And don’t worry about the prophets of doom, he said – those who may find this opening to the modern world risky or wrong. Pay no attention to them, he counseled.<br /><br />We were trapped in a belief and way-of-life system, a deadly control system – one never intended by Jesus, one he would not recognize today. Jesus taught us a way of life. John XXIII called us back to that way when he called for Vatican II. It was timely and it was right. It addressed what and who we must be in the modern world.<br /><br />Let us, therefore, because we must, renew ourselves in light of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and, in the light of that renewal, plan our future. How can we possibly plan strategically for our future without doing so?<br /><br />Charles Pilon<br />c.a.pilon@comcast.netPCV Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.com