Thoughts and opinions from a Priest in the PNCC
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Wszechmogący Boże, któryś dnia dzisiejszego uwolnił św. Benedykta, opata, z więzów ciała, i nadgrodziłeś go niebem, użycz nam za jego przyczyną odpuszczenia grzechów, i udział w jego zasługach i chwale. Przez Chrystusa Pana naszego. Amen.
Mary Kunz’ editorial in the Buffalo News was a pure gem. Her op-ed People, can’t we just leave it at that? discusses the tendency to over specify in language based on gender obsession.
In my opinion the best lines, which we can all appreciate, discuss the meaningless efforts toward gender neutrality and inclusiveness in Liturgy and Liturgical Music:
The “men and women” fad must have grown out of a gender obsession I first noticed as a kid in church. Hymns changed to, well, hers. In the folk Mass chestnut “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” for instance, “brothers all are we” became “we are family.” Like Sister Sledge.
The thought must be that if women aren’t specifically referred to, we feel marginalized, ignored. But I’m not that dumb. I know “brotherhood” can mean me, too. And that troops are women as well as men.
Say “men and women” in every breath, and I start to feel patronized. These words have a place, and it’s on restroom doors. Not in every other sentence.
Isn’t it time we ended this overstated equality?
Can’t we let people be people?
Wszechmogący Boże, któryś z pomiędzy wszystkich ludzi świętych, wybrał św. Joachima na ojca N. P. Marji, matki Twojego Syna, użycz nam prosimy Cię, abyśmy w każdej potrzebie skutecznej Jego doświadczali opieki. Przez Chrystusa Pana naszego. Amen.
The folks at Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam are at it again.
Not satisfied with dealing with the problems in their own Archdiocese in St. Louis (St. Stan’s, Archbishop Burke, and all, which they have ranted on about incessantly in their ‘we’re more Catholic than thou’ way), they now have to take pot shots at the PNCC.
In commentary about some Roman Catholics from Toledo who have left the R.C. Church for the PNCC due to the Toledo Bishop’s closing of their parishes the AMDG folks said:
How many disgruntled individuals go about starting their own “church”? How many professed Catholics do this?
“Some people will say we are not Catholic. That is not true,” Father Nowak said after the service. “We are independent but Catholic.”
A defective understanding of what it means to be Catholic…A defective understanding which has been propagated among the faithful for years by many who have claimed to be Catholic and who have been allowed to spread their poison of dissent and heresy due, in part, to the failure of leadership to discipline those responsible for leading souls away from the Church.
And how exactly are the clergy in the PNCC, and former Roman Catholics to be disciplined by the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church?
I would imagine that the AMDG folks would have us all whipped, put in stocks, and then burned at the stake. Better yet, why not advise their leadership to start closing cemeteries too. Perhaps then they could dig up our R.C. ancestors and throw their bodies out —“ you know they must have had a hand in fomenting heresy.
I’ll even one up that. Since you’re so bent on punishing heretics why not drive down to St. Stan’s on Sunday and forment a pogrom. Give them a taste of the hell fire you so adamantly claim they are destined for.
The article on the Toledo situation is available at the Toledo Blade.
Of course the Toledo Diocesan spokesman gave the typical line:
The Rev. Michael Billian, episcopal vicar of the Toledo Catholic Diocese, said “it is important to note” that Father Nowak and the PNCC are “not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, or Bishop Blair.”
Uh, yup. That’s right. No mystery there. The PNCC never purports to be R.C. I think these people very well know that. That is what they are running from.
Did you ever notice that this is a stock statement? They pull it out when the SSPX shows up too.
A final word to the AMDG folks: Read Dominus Iesus, specifically IV, 17. Also check out the Code of Canon Law, the USCCB Ecumenical Directory, and the R.C. —“ PNCC Dialog Documents.
You will find that the members of the PNCC are not heretics (unless of course you consider Orthodox Christians heretics as well – which you probably do.)
So, get busy pulling the plank out of your own eye, while you sit inside your comfy parish, before you pull the speck out of the eyes of the folks in Toledo while they sit outside their closed churches.