{"id":18194,"date":"2012-11-05T22:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T03:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=18194"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:02:18","slug":"looking-for-something-else-to-talk-about-besides-the-election-check-this-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/11\/looking-for-something-else-to-talk-about-besides-the-election-check-this-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for something else to talk about besides the election? Check this out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This video shows how Rev. Michael Pfleger \u2014yes, that one<\/a><\/strong>\u2014completely re-wrote the Eucharistic Prayer during a performance (yes, performance) of the Mass on Holy Thursday two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nIt\u2019s used in seminaries as an example of what NOT to do with the Mass.<\/p>\nWriter Patrick Doyle <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bostonmagazine.com\/boston_daily\/2012\/11\/05\/rogue-priests-match-youtube\/%20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">notes: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>This past spring, while reporting \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/archdiocese-catholic-church-rebuild-after-scandal\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Resurrection<\/a>,\u201d my story about the Archdiocese of Boston\u2019s recovery from the 2002 sex abuse scandal,\u00a0I had the chance to attend a few classes for aspiring priests at St. John\u2019s Seminary in Brighton. It was pretty interesting for a lay person.\u00a0The first-year course on \u201cMetaphysics\u201d felt like college-level philosophy\u2014with the very funny Father Joseph Scorzello using baseball analogies to explain philosophical definitions\u2014while the final year course of the \u201cSacraments of Healing\u201d taught soon-to-be priests, including the story\u2019s subject, Eric Cadin, how to deliver the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.<\/p>\nThe most interesting and entertaining class I attended, though, was the one that covered acculturation, which is how the Church interacts with and adapts to a local culture. As the professor, Monsignor James Moroney, told his students, \u201cThe Roman Catholic Church adapts herself so that the United States might be leavened with the Gospel. The Gospel remains the same\u2014the truth endures. But the form is adapted to achieve its end: leavening of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\nThe best part of class, though, were the YouTube videos of rogue Catholic priests. These priests, in saying Mass in their various churches, had gone well beyond what was acceptable in variation to the Church. For Catholics used to a highly ritualized Mass\u2014like, say, seminary students\u2014these are bizarre adaptations that are clearly beyond the bounds of the Church. Highlight No. 1 was Father Michael Pfleger, who made some unsanctioned adaptations to a Holy Thursday Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere\u2019s more where that came from.\u00a0 Check out<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bostonmagazine.com\/boston_daily\/2012\/11\/05\/rogue-priests-match-youtube\/%20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> the link. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This video shows how Rev. 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