{"id":26769,"date":"2011-03-25T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=26769"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:19:19","slug":"types-of-catholic-commenters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/03\/25\/types-of-catholic-commenters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Catholic Commenters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Writer Max Lindenman,<\/strong> who usually adds a dose of cleverness to the food for thought offered in his column, \u201cAn Israelite Without Guile,\u201d<\/strong><\/a> today gives us a spoonful of medicine that goes down pretty easy, if you have a sense of humor. Perusing various Catholic blogs and magazine sites, he has identified Nine types of Catholic Commenters<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the curious, I\u2019ve prepared a brief field guide to some recognizable types:<\/p>\n

1) The Chief Mourner:<\/strong> For this nostalgic soul, spiritual perfection was realized in some Church figure of his\/her youth. When that exemplar passed from the earth, the whole Church went to the dogs. To hear the chief mourner tell it, there\u2019s no point in even discussing the Church\u2019s problems, if Archbishop Sheen (Cardinal Bernardin, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII) isn\u2019t around to solve them.<\/p>\n

2) The Closet Sedevacantist:<\/strong> This master of reductive reasoning finds one explanation and one explanation only for every woe that plagues the Church. He blames the Second Vatican Council for clerical sex abuse, declining vocations, and even the designated hitter rule. (Pius XII would have fought to preserve the purity of our national pastime.) Since he prides himself on his docility to the Magisterium, he will, occasionally, observe a distinction between the conciliar decrees themselves and their subsequent application; but this is tokenism. In truth, he can\u2019t shut his ears to the idea that Good Pope John had been inspired by the Freemasons, the Devil, or both.<\/p>\n

3) Casper the Friendly Ghost:<\/strong> The closet sedevacantist\u2019s natural counterpart and constant incubus, this person pines aloud for the Spirit of Vatican II. This Spirit, as he defines it, represented a boundless openness to change\u2014aggiornamento<\/em> without borders. In his gloomier moods, he writes of the spirit as though it were Sade\u2019s Justine\u2014abused, betrayed, and violated at very turn. In his more buoyant moments, he writes as though it were out of commission but only temporarily, like Tinkerbell. If we all clap our hands and believe, Vatican III could be just around the corner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, I have found myself somewhere<\/strong> in there, and not just once. I am not telling you where. This being Lent \u2014 the season of self-examination and a resolve to do better \u2014 take a look<\/strong><\/a> and see where you land on the list!<\/p>\n

*James Tissot\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> painting<\/strong> Mary Magdalene\u2019s Box of Very Precious Ointment<\/em> seemed apt to me; everybody\u2019s got an opinion!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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