Rambling on a Tweet
The tweet in question gives us the following “innovative outlook, inclusivity, open-mindedness, listening, accompaniment, co-responsibility, dialogue and a partridge in a pear tree.”
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Rambling on Discerning a Decision or Deciding on Discernment
When the Angel appeared to her at the Annunciation Mary did not exclaim “Can you give me another month Gabe to pray over it with my spiritual director?”
Read more "Rambling on Discerning a Decision or Deciding on Discernment"Rambling on the Repentance Room
There could also be a Penance Ritual there with a copy of the latest Act of Contrition that begged God to heal Mother Earth from the sins of pollution and capitalistic greed.
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Allowing the Bishop to attend the meeting. This was again tabled when no consensus could be reached.
The allowing priests to date policy has been delayed pending the Vatican’s anticipated move to eliminate clerical celibacy.
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The people of these parishes need their sacraments and need to know that you were jesting about flogging the pastor.
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Babies don’t bounce too well and walking around a church with an exposed kid in hand will not help your image.
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Delay works for the Old Mass crowd like it did for the early Christians martyrs, insisting on saying Grace Before Meals as the lions charged.
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Walking and chewing gum at the same time is not as difficult as gardening and laundry on the same day. It’s a matter of focus.
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A last digression; this is only one of the theological explanations for the next life. Some would say that the Congregation for the Condemnation of Bad People (CCBP) did exist in the form of the Inquisition, however the historical facts are different from the popular notion of this entity (“No one escapes the Spanish Inquisition… says Monty Python). If there were an actual CCBP what terms would they use instead of Venerable, Blesses and Saint? Bad, Evil and Damned? “Mom, the Vatican just declared Uncle Rick Bad.” “OK dear, we will pray for the two catastrophes required for Evil and Damned status.”
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This is unseemly!
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