Which Catholic Church do you find yourself most Comfortable with?
This Easter, think about why we are Christians, and for many of us, we practice that Christianity as Catholics.
Parishes across the country will welcome new members into the faith and into the church as an organization on Saturday evening.
A friend and colleague who is now retired from the pastorate. Fr. Charles Niblick, DMin, continues as a senior priest in the parish where he served for twenty years; he prefers to call himself a “pastor emeritus”. I just smile when he tells me that. He writes a weekly column for the parish bulletin, called Words For The Wind. At the liturgy I usually attend on weekends, you see many people reading the bulletin before Mass begins. I usually glance over and see what pages they are reading, and so many are reading his page.
What is really good about the way he framed the entire article this Sunday is that it is applicable to cradle catholics as well as converts. What Catholic Church is the American catholic sitting in a pew looking for? My gosh, just look around at some of our parishes and ask what version of Catholicism is being promoted?
Think about where Catholic Social Teachings weave into the article, and what role AI is playing in the conversation about the medium being the message in our world today, and in relation to religion.
I often wonder what Thomas Merton, Joseph Cardijn, Louis Putz CSC, and Albert Nolan would think about the American Catholic Church.
“I often wonder what Thomas Merton, Joseph Cardijn, Louis Putz CSC, and Albert Nolan would think about the American Catholic Church.”
I think that the American Catholic Church is now faced with another scandal because the Catholic schools are now so expensive that they are serving primarily the upper classes while leaving the poor in public schools.