"Success can be built upon repeated failures when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally." - Jim Paul
@Pontifex_pt “A estrada para o Inferno é pavimentada com os ossos de sacerdotes e monges, e os crânios dos bispos são os postes de luz que iluminam o caminho.”
-- São João Crisóstomo
What Catholic Unscripted refuses to face is that neither Stephen Kokx nor I created the crisis. We are reacting to it.
We did not create the contradiction between preconciliar Catholicism and the managerial religion now marketed as continuity. We did not create the bishops who bless confusion, the Vatican language games, the selective mercy, the ritualized humiliations of tradition, the sentimental ecumenism, the migration posturing, the democratic sermonizing, or the endless spectacle of men in miters telling Catholics to stop believing their own eyes.
We did not teach Catholics to distrust the hierarchy. The hierarchy did that, by behaving in ways that would have scandalized Catholics in any healthier age.
And this is where the accusation becomes especially perverse. The show says critics are leading people away from the Church. No. The men leading souls away from the Church are the ones who treat Catholic dogma as elastic, Catholic worship as improv theater, Catholic borders as moral embarrassments, and Catholic tradition as something to be tolerated only under supervision.
The critic who names the disease is not the enemy of the patient.
He is the one insisting that the wound be seen before it kills