Confession Of A Former Diocesan Catholic
Bishop Lopes celebrating Divine Worship: Elevation of the Host, the Body of Christ. In this former diocesan Catholic blogger's experience—shared and suffered—there is frequently an unwillingness (dare one say a hard-heartedness?) among too many diocesan Catholics to invest in their own identity, an identity measured by faithfulness to Jesus Christ and His Church, the degree to which one keeps Jesus' commandments. Shared . I confess that I was once biased against our more conservative brethren in ways that are difficult to justify for a Catholic, a Christian who should by definition be well-schooled in history and in the art of appreciating the timeless and timely movements of the Holy Spirit. Suffered . Having awakened to my arrogance by acknowledging my debt to history as a trained musician, my "second" conversion to the Faith meant defending the legacy we have inherited. The facts also speak for themselves: the renewal sought by the Second Vatican Council w...