Fashion police.After reading "Bring back men in black" (Sounding Board, May) on the return of clerical garb, especially cassocks among younger priests, two thoughts immediately come to mind. First, a significant number of responses and comments seem to be self-centered: "I feel better because I see the priest in his cassock." The idea that it takes a police car sitting on the side of the road to slow one down doesn't wash when dealing with matters of living one's personal faith. Second, in his homily homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the at Yankee Stadium, Pope Benedict XVI  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. stated
that Catholics must submit to the authority of the church. Excuse me,
but isn't this the root cause of the current pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia. scandal
facing the clergy?
I would rather have a beer with a priest dressed in his finest Hawaiian shirt who understands me than to have the authoritative dictates of the magisterium mag·is·te·ri·um n. Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine. [Latin, the office of a teacher or other person in authority, from magister, master; see forced down my throat by some 25-year-old, cassock-robed whipper-snapper who has yet to experience life. Eduardo Magallanez San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. I am amazed that U.S. CATHOLIC is falling for the "bring back men in black" movement. The black suit, when worn in public, is not a sign of piety. It is a political statement: Let's go back to the wonderful days before Vatican II. I grew up in that era. We laypeople lay·peo·ple or lay people pl.n. Laymen and laywomen. were told, "Leave religion to the priests." Our job was to pray, pay, and obey. I am glad those days are gone. I really believe we are the church. In my humble opinion, if you scratch a black suit, you find an anti-Vatican II priest. Marty Due Newport, Ky. |
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