I give you the hover boarding priest<\/a>. \u00a0I know, he apologized. As well he should. \u00a0But across the Catholic Blogosphere, there is this strange tendency to follow that Chestertonian notion that without Protestants, there can be nothing \u00a0but awesomeness. \u00a0It\u2019s not uncommon to have Catholics, almost as an afterthought, advance the idea that there is something about Protestantism that leads to shallow, sappy and silly worship services more akin to a kid\u2019s party than true Worship in Truth and Spirit. \u00a0Well, no. \u00a0And since there has been a noticeable shift to the left across many Catholic blogs, there is the added tendency to deny that there have ever been the liberal post-Vatican horror stories of Beer and Crackers Eucharists and Clown Masses.<\/p>\nI can\u2019t speak for either of those. \u00a0But in our area, more than one modern Catholic Church built has little distinguishing it from many Protestant and Evangelical Mega-Churches. \u00a0And when it comes to tricks in the Mass, I\u2019ve seen interpretive dances and calls for shaking up the liturgy up close and personal. \u00a0So a reminder. \u00a0If we don\u2019t want the Church defined by the odd \u00a0and strange exceptions, or have people find some strange story on the Internet in order to point and say \u2018Figures, only Catholics could make that possible\u2019, then don\u2019t extend the courtesy to others. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I give you the hover boarding priest. \u00a0I know, he apologized. As well he should. \u00a0But across the Catholic Blogosphere, there is this strange tendency to follow that Chestertonian notion that without Protestants, there can be nothing \u00a0but awesomeness. \u00a0It\u2019s not uncommon to have Catholics, almost as an afterthought, advance the idea that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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