In my humble opinion, sooner or later each of us Catholics is going to have to decide if what is being presented to us, is actually coming from "our church", or is it what used to be the church as we knew it. “Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the …More
In my humble opinion, sooner or later each of us Catholics is going to have to decide if what is being presented to us, is actually coming from "our church", or is it what used to be the church as we knew it.
“Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship."
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When Father Joseph Ratzinger Predicted the Future of the Church
Way before becoming pope, or even a prelate, Ratzinger laid it out in a 1969 broadcast on German radio for all to hear ... He didn’t …
@Scapular and @The Wandering Recluse The Third Secret has been revealed. I posted it ages ago! As for Ratzinger, he was always a Progressivist, and he and his kind want nothing more then to see the demise of the Catholic Church. Which is what he was hoping for with that statement. Our lady of Fatima, pray for us!
@The Wandering Recluse. @Jeffrey Ade. In fairness to Pope Benedict XV1: He became wiser with time, and was able to acknowledge his, and the churches mistakes relating to the retention of the Latin Mass and Tradition. He was one of the first to point out that Vat.11 did not authorize any ban or change to The Latin Mass. And Yes @The Wandering Recluse, Benedict XV1 did lift the restriction on SSPX!More
@The Wandering Recluse. @Jeffrey Ade. In fairness to Pope Benedict XV1: He became wiser with time, and was able to acknowledge his, and the churches mistakes relating to the retention of the Latin Mass and Tradition. He was one of the first to point out that Vat.11 did not authorize any ban or change to The Latin Mass.
