I wonder what all the pain in the Church will lead to. Will the news cycle move on, and the public be distracted by one of the manifold disasters that are always occurring? Or will the outcry, both from individuals and governments, at last force Pope Benedict to make some essential reforms: extending zero tolerance to the universal church, and holding at least a few bishops accountable? Or a new Reformation?
I doubt that Catholics, however dissatisfied they are with the Church, will want to set up a new, reformed Catholic Church. The vast mass of the laity, 99% or more, would not want to go to the trouble of setting up a new Church, and governments are mostly no longer in the business of state churches.
I also doubt that Benedict will make the needed reforms. If has not made them already, he will not make them now, especially when the Vatican and hierarchy are full of toadies telling him everything he does is perfect and his critics are all anti-Christian.
The news cycle will move on, the Church in Europe will be weakened, but it is already dying, and for the most part the everyday life of the Church will go on, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of those who have kept themselves informed – but they are powerless to change anything.
Sadly, I have to agree with that last paragraph. I think, though, that the idea that only those ordained but the Church can actually bring God to us in the sacraments contributes to the feeling that there is no other choice.
I don’t like feeling this way.
The news cycle will move on – to the next country, the next crisis! I simply cannot believe this conflagration is going to die out. Burning embers maybe.
‘only those ordained but the Church can actually bring God to us in the sacraments contributes to the feeling that there is no other choice.’
THAT’S THE WILL OF GOD!!!!
The way that u wanted Don is call PROTENTANTISM.
I been part of a website from Spain and oh boy they think that only few bishops cover up the abuses i try to tell them about it and give them the links but they continue believing that is not true.
We’ll see.