So, this morning someone brought up women priests. Do not symbolic actions mean something?
I am also discouraged by a conversation between good Catholic priests which indicated that now some priests will see that they have a right to any type of liturgical bending of the rules.
I am also discouraged by the false dichotomy of "rules" versus "the spirit".
There is no such dichotomy.
What is happening in Rome affects us all in the parishes we attend.
And, what about the "sons of Benedict"? Those thousands of seminarians who have entered expecting a renewal of the NO and not a backtracking to the 1970s.
Perhaps we laity get the clergy we deserve. Perhaps we get the Pope who has been formed by the liturgical chaos of the past fifty years.
I am not a happy puppy.
The Doctors of the Church series will resume at the end of the week.