Protestant Catholicism
Photo: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester NY before renovation.
Trying to be positive.
As much as I try to be Pollyanna about things - or should I say, forever optimistic about the state of the Church in the United States, sometimes this attitude simply falls apart. I hear things, I read things, and wonder how the Church got so protestant.
Touring various blogs that continually ’piss and moan’ about all the liturgical abuses, bad catechises, progressivist liturgists, joined by modernist bishops and priests, so on and so forth, I must admit, many of the writers have their points, and the complaints are valid. I mean, I’ve known all of that - I’ve lived with this novelty crap for 40 years. I could be likened to a kid growing up in an abusive household, I’ve just been trying to cope, struggling to keep my faith. I get so tired of hearing/reading all the constant bickering.
Since the Council, the modernist reformers in the Catholic Church, sanctioned by Roman Catholic Hierarchy, have acheived - in a stunningly short time - what the original reformers of the so-called Protestant Reformation started out to do in the 16th century.
Blogs of distinction.
Photo: Sacred Heart Cathedral after renovation. Tell me it hasn’t been Protestant-ised.
Salve Regina has a rather objective, albeit revealing post on the wreck-ovations of Fr. Richard Vasko, which clearly demonstrate the influence of Protestant iconoclasm omnipresent in contemporary ecclesial design. It is nothing short of heart breaking.
Bishop Trautman (Erie Diocese), who seems to have his finger upon the pulse of the average Catholic lay person, is in the news with his views on liturgical language. Gerald has done a fine job of presenting the Bishop’s insightful views into the mind of the Catholic faithful, thinking out loud, as he does, for the person in the pew; so check Cafeteria is Closed for his take on things. He of course links to Fr. Z as well as Diogenes for their expositions on the debate. (Most of you probably have already read their stuff,which sometimes is a bit too sarcastic for me to read on a regular basis, though I understand the need for someone to expose this crap.)
The dismantling of the Catholic faith was foreseen before the Council.
Rorate Caeli has a post on Bishop Trautman’s recent statements concerning the Bishop’s opinion regarding new liturgical translations. Rorate Caeli counters these with Dom Prosper Gueranges’ warning regarding liturgical reform, written in the mid to late 19th century. The decimation of liturgical cult, worship, devotion and Church design, begun by the Protestant Reform has finally found pride of place in the Roman Catholic Church - in Europe as well as the U.S. and elsewhere. This is part of what Dom Prosper Gueranger wrote:
“We must admit it is a master blow of Protestantism to have declared war on the sacred language. If it should ever succeed in ever destroying it, it would be well on the way to victory. Exposed to profane gaze, like a virgin who has been violated, from that moment on the Liturgy has lost much of its sacred character, and very soon people find that it is not worthwhile putting aside one’s work or pleasure in order to go and listen to what is being spoken in the way one speaks on the town square.…”- Dom Prosper Gueranger, taken from, Rorate Caeli
On another blog, one commenter challenged another, asking what made her think that Protestantism has crept into the Catholic Church. What kind of a dumb-ass question was that?
That’s all.
