{"id":1348,"date":"2015-05-22T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/obviously-busy.html"},"modified":"2015-05-22T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:46:00","slug":"obviously-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/obviously-busy.html","title":{"rendered":"Obviously busy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Busy, busy, busy. \u00a0Mostly struggling through life, juggling the older three having jobs, home school, and our oldest prepping for college, remembering to be there for our youngest, helping my Mom, and continuing to get zero from the Church in terms of either material aid or vocational direction. \u00a0With that, I must admit, we\u2019ve been casting our eyes askance at other potential ecclesiastical alternatives. \u00a0Still, theologically and, to be honest, culturally I\u2019m Catholic. \u00a0Always have been, even in my Protestant days. \u00a0So it\u2019s like finding out your wife is having an affair. \u00a0Do you just leave her, or work through the betrayal and the pain and heartache in the hope that something will turn a corner?<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, as we struggle with bills, a bleak future, and a clear message from those in the diocese that \u2018you don\u2019t serve our kind\u2019, things are tough time-wise. \u00a0And with juggling so many things, the blog has obviously taken a back seat. <\/p>\n

Still, I\u2019ve had a couple emails and some questions, such as why am I still visiting CAEI when I said I would be done with it at Easter, and a profound question asking our take on some current issues in the news. \u00a0I\u2019m working on the second, and will elaborate on the first. \u00a0But for now, a reader sent this link along<\/a> and all I have to say is \u2018yep.\u2019 <\/p>\n

This explains why so many Catholics have gotten so mean and unbelievably fundamentalist in their zeal to defend the Pope and the Church. \u00a0Proud of their conservative leanings and their belief that authentic conservatism and the Church are one and the same, they are stuck admitting that both this Pope, and the Church in recent years, is tacking seriously to the left. \u00a0Its approach to economics, political policy, social issues, theological and critical scholarship, scientific theories of human origins, are all more in line with a more liberal viewpoint than anything Catholics would have recognized even 50 years ago, much less 100 years ago.<\/p>\n

Therefore, their desire to be both loyal to the Vatican, which for many is the same as being loyal to the Church, and yet insisting they are ever and always just good old conservatives like grandma used to make, produces quite the strain. One of the favorite go-to answers to why Pope Francis sounds so liberal if he really isn\u2019t one is that he is just misquoted. \u00a0Or his words manipulated. \u00a0Or stupid evil Catholics and Francis haters aren\u2019t smart enough to get his wise words. \u00a0In any event, he\u2019s just not to blame. Ever.<\/p>\n

Well, John-Henry Westen at LifeSite News disagrees. \u00a0He believes, somewhat foolishly, that if you are in the business of communicating important things \u2013 like the Gospel \u2013 and you continually see your words being twisted by powers that ostensibly represent the powers of Hell, then a new strategy or approach might be in order. \u00a0And yet, it isn\u2019t. \u00a0Pope Francis continues, as does the Vatican, to lean on \u2018we didn\u2019t mean it that way\u2019 as the favored approach to insisting that the somewhat liberal sounding words weren\u2019t really liberal at all. <\/p>\n

In keeping with the mood of the post-JPII Catholic apologetics world, expect Mr. Westen to be skinned. \u00a0At least verbally. \u00a0For I\u2019ve found that for some Catholics, ever since the rack and thumbscrews went out of style, the world of apologetics and the blogosphere are \u00a0the best they can do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busy, busy, busy. \u00a0Mostly struggling through life, juggling the older three having jobs, home school, and our oldest prepping for college, remembering to be there for our youngest, helping my Mom, and continuing to get zero from the Church in terms of either material aid or vocational direction. \u00a0With that, I must admit, we\u2019ve been […]<\/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-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nObviously busy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Busy, busy, busy.  Mostly struggling through life, juggling the older three having jobs, home school, and our oldest prepping for college,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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