Photo ~ On May 2, 2004, at a Catholic parish in Menzingen, Switzerland, the pastor invited a gymnastics team to perform during Mass. In fact, they stood next to the altar as the Mass was said, above right. Then, the priest went to his side chair while the four athletes - two women and two men - showed their acrobatic abilities in front of the altar, left.

PC in the Catholic Church
Published August 22, 2002

In our new book Chris Ferrara and I list one case after another of bizarre, unheard-of novelties that have to be read to be believed but that are positively encouraged by the bishops. What, on the other hand, of the traditional Latin Mass that formed the piety of Catholic faithful for over 1500 years and to which the saints and pre-conciliar popes were so devoted?

Those bishops who do allow it in a parish or two often forbid any advertising and do nothing to encourage attendance. Charismatic hysteria, polka Masses, teen Masses — as long as no one had ever heard of it before 1965, the bishops promote it vigorously.

Just as in the secular culture, anything goes but tradition. Catholics have witnessed the emergence of post-conciliar correctness in the Church — the ecclesial analogue of political correctness.

In our book we make the case that this ecclesial version of PC has produced the greatest crisis in the Church's history.

The sheltering of homosexual priests by the bishops, who will not even consider following the Vatican's 1961 instruction barring the ordination of homosexuals, is but one result of PC at work in the Church.

The trumpeted "new springtime" of Vatican II — a phrase no one will ever be so foolish as to use again — has finally hit rock bottom. It is time for The Great Facade of novelty and innovation, corruption and laxity, finally to be torn down, and the Catholic Church as she was less than one human lifetime ago restored to health again.

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