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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2013-02-08 03:03 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2013-02-08 03:03 pm
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Bear with me, I'm thinking aloud here. I'm in the middle of reading this article by Andrew Sullivan and this text rang a bell for me:
There a line in the Roman Catholic liturgy where the faithful ask God to "...look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church, and grant us peace and unity..." Which kind of seems to underscore that the church, the body of Christ, is actually the 99%, and not the 1% privileged hierarchy.
Currently there is no end of drama and debate about how Philippine Church hierarchy should deal with issues in these modern times. Reproductive health and freedom of expression are the two hot topics. ("Offending religious FEELINGS"? Really? How vague can you get? Does that mean that if my "religious feelings" are offended by a priest using homily time to rant about political issues, I can haul him off to court? Um.)
As described in the Bible, Church hierarchy began as a means to allow the apostles to concentrate on spreading the Good News. How it evolved from that to the scandal-ridden entity it is now, is food for thought. (Which may give me a headache if thought over too long, so I'll take it by installments.)
Also, the 99% of the Catholic faith are, if my recollection of catechism serves me right, sometimes referred to as Church Militant. Which to me implies that we have a responsibility to call people out on what is right, and what is wrong, even in - or especially in - the Church. And then having done that, to do something about it, the way Jesus overturned the moneychangers' tables in the Temple.
Just random thoughts, don't mean to offend anyone, like I said, talking to myself. I still have to finish the article and think on the ideas presented some more. Pax.
"It really is a story about how the real church finally stood up to a hierarchy that has betrayed us and committed crimes of such gravity and magnitude they beggar belief."
There a line in the Roman Catholic liturgy where the faithful ask God to "...look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church, and grant us peace and unity..." Which kind of seems to underscore that the church, the body of Christ, is actually the 99%, and not the 1% privileged hierarchy.
Currently there is no end of drama and debate about how Philippine Church hierarchy should deal with issues in these modern times. Reproductive health and freedom of expression are the two hot topics. ("Offending religious FEELINGS"? Really? How vague can you get? Does that mean that if my "religious feelings" are offended by a priest using homily time to rant about political issues, I can haul him off to court? Um.)
As described in the Bible, Church hierarchy began as a means to allow the apostles to concentrate on spreading the Good News. How it evolved from that to the scandal-ridden entity it is now, is food for thought. (Which may give me a headache if thought over too long, so I'll take it by installments.)
Also, the 99% of the Catholic faith are, if my recollection of catechism serves me right, sometimes referred to as Church Militant. Which to me implies that we have a responsibility to call people out on what is right, and what is wrong, even in - or especially in - the Church. And then having done that, to do something about it, the way Jesus overturned the moneychangers' tables in the Temple.
Just random thoughts, don't mean to offend anyone, like I said, talking to myself. I still have to finish the article and think on the ideas presented some more. Pax.