{"id":22093,"date":"2016-12-06T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=22093"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:16:06","slug":"pope-francis-slapped-young-rad-trads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2016\/12\/pope-francis-slapped-young-rad-trads.html","title":{"rendered":"Has Pope Francis Slapped Young Rad Trads?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"pope\"A Detroit newspaper published this slap <\/a>to Pope Francis accusing him of insulting young Catholics who like the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.<\/p>\n

Millennials are leaving religion in droves, recent surveys\u00a0find<\/a>. Churches are roiled, but it appears Pope Francis isn\u2019t worried he may accelerate the exodus.<\/p>\n

The \u201cWho am I to judge?<\/a>\u201d pope recently\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0an interviewer that he has a hard time understanding why so many young Catholics worship in Latin on Sundays. \u201cWhy so much rigidity,\u201d Francis asked. \u201cThis rigidity always hides something, insecurity or even something else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would seem that even the secular press are getting weary with Pope Francis scolding the faithful.<\/p>\n

Surely we should be happy that young people are enthusiastic about their faith. Of course we all know some traditionalists who are, shall we say, somewhat uptight\u2026but to accuse everyone who likes the Latin Mass of being \u201crigid\u201d is just silly.<\/p>\n

What worries me most about Pope Francis using the \u201crigid\u201d term to slap people is that it is so reminiscent of the bad old days of the 1970s, 80s and 90s when seminary rectors would kick guys out of seminary for being \u201crigid\u201d. One would hear horror stories of seminarians\u00a0who would be accused of being \u201crigid\u201d because they wanted to start a group in seminary to pray the rosary, or they were \u201crigid\u201d if they spoke out against modernist Biblical theory or because they thought the priestly discipline of celibacy was a good thing. The worst stories were of the young men who went to seminary only to find that the place was infested with predatory homosexuals, and if they resisted the advances of the older homosexuals they were kicked out of seminary for being \u201crigid.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Pope Francis uses this term to scold young Catholics he unfortunately associates himself with all those tie dyed 1970s and 1980s liberals.<\/p>\n

I have recently watched\u00a0The Crown\u00a0<\/em>on Netflix and greatly enjoyed one of the bits of advice from the crusty old Queen Mary to the young Queen Elizabeth. She says something like, \u201cThe most important quality you will need as Queen is to keep your mouth shut.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not bad advice for a Pope either.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is, I\u00a0don\u2019t really want the Pope to speak out all the time, express his opinion and have informal press conferences on airplanes. I\u2019m quite happy for him to be a distant, avuncular, monarchical figure who waves, smiles, blesses people, kisses babies, visits poor people and from time to time defines and defends the faith once delivered to the saints.<\/p>\n

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A Detroit newspaper published this slap to Pope Francis accusing him of insulting young Catholics who like the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. Millennials are leaving religion in droves, recent surveys\u00a0find. Churches are roiled, but it appears Pope Francis isn\u2019t worried he may accelerate the exodus. The \u201cWho am I to judge?\u201d pope recently\u00a0told\u00a0an interviewer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":22094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHas Pope Francis Slapped Young Rad Trads?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Detroit newspaper published this slap to Pope Francis accusing him of insulting young Catholics who like the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. 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