tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post3363574713226368030..comments2024-03-18T15:16:08.163-04:00Comments on Unam Sanctam Catholicam: Man-PanderingBonifacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-3405968321282258302017-05-28T12:01:57.460-04:002017-05-28T12:01:57.460-04:00At Mass, during the "Holy, Holy, holy" I...At Mass, during the "Holy, Holy, holy" I visualize Our Lord riding into Jerusalem on His little donkey, riding to His torture and death willingly and I think, "There is a man!". I think traditional art and portrayals of Our Lord's masculinity have not done justice to His human courage and toughness.To McFadden (Sr.)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09915063838277908843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-33380725344587491122017-04-25T12:52:47.104-04:002017-04-25T12:52:47.104-04:00C Matt said:
Problem is, balance is rarely achiev...C Matt said:<br /><br /><i>Problem is, balance is rarely achieved by going to the other extreme. Picture a tight-rope walker with that long stick - trying to over-correct generally causes more trouble.</i><br /><br />Yes. This was the point of the article.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-14998187046108545542017-04-25T12:06:08.014-04:002017-04-25T12:06:08.014-04:00What's wrong with men trying to get a little b...<i>What's wrong with men trying to get a little balance</i><br /><br />Problem is, balance is rarely achieved by going to the other extreme. Picture a tight-rope walker with that long stick - trying to over-correct generally causes more trouble.<br /><br />Kathleen pretty much nailed it - men or women should not eb the focal point for marketing, Truth should be. The tag line from X-files would have been better - The Truth is Out There. This ad looks more like something advertising an MMA cage match or monster truck rally. I do like beer and BBQ though. Keep that.c mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-44766278422550943542017-04-07T21:59:07.055-04:002017-04-07T21:59:07.055-04:00Look I think while there may be some merit in what...Look I think while there may be some merit in what you are saying, I wouldn't fret much about it. Frankly, we men have been subjected to the hyper-feminized liturgy with guitar-strumming and syrupy, feminine hymns for decades now. What's wrong with men trying to get a little balance by promoting something unmistakably masculine ? I think you'll find the vast majority of men far prefer a hyper-masculine image to promote a Catholic event, rather than what we've had to endure at the hands of most Catholic parishes.Firefox29https://www.blogger.com/profile/06814165502795144460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-69327208789251234672017-03-26T22:34:31.414-04:002017-03-26T22:34:31.414-04:00Yes you are correct.. there is no reason ever to f...Yes you are correct.. there is no reason ever to fall away...the Cross should be at the center not all the other.anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04622922038591605734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-4768733681412391742017-03-26T15:52:18.934-04:002017-03-26T15:52:18.934-04:00That's so sad. It really is.
However absolut...That's so sad. It really is. <br /><br />However absolutely none of it gives you any excuse for falling away. If you fall away because of things like that, your faith is weak. Use your sorrow and anguish to purify your soul and coin steadfastly to the cross. Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-67538410086400024742017-03-26T15:40:45.755-04:002017-03-26T15:40:45.755-04:00I cry a lot about the church I became a part of in...I cry a lot about the church I became a part of in 1999. I became Catholic via NO. Nine years later after "suffering" all sorts of strange things-- a nun who said one day I would be confessing to her, a grandmother and life long Catholic who told me she didn't understand why the Pope didn't allow abortion, a band called "team Jesus" "playing" at Mass, a woman belting out a hymn sounding like a sexy song at Mass, the non stop talking and raucous laughter before Mass while you are praying before the Christ crucified, the scantily dressed- men and women, etc etc....then by accident I met someone who went to the Latin Mass and was home. And I was happy there for six years...then inexplicably I fell away.. now I cry in the back of a church that is Catholic but is more Protestant than a Protestant church...and the altar is overrun with women...girl altar servers and Eucharistic ministers...and the choir (Amazing Grace? Really? We sang that in the Methodist Church I grew up in)... I think in five years women will be ordained and that will be the last time I am at Mass. I see the Church going into a direction that I have no interest in...namely it will look and be the secular world...I don't blame men for not participating...and why would boys want to serve with all the girls...all of this of course causes a loss of vocations and is breeding a group of disaffected women who will want to be priests. It all appears to be an "inside" job. I am venting as I spend time in the confessional about my criticisms. And I question whether anyone really cares if the Church falls apart...or has fallen apart...I sometimes think that I have entered a surreal universe where I was called to be Catholic but I cannot find the Catholic Church. Once I heard that the plan to destroy the Church could be accomplished by destroying the modesty of women (Totally done!) And make priests and nuns into gourmands and social workers.anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04622922038591605734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-77839772503728487932017-03-25T10:28:56.835-04:002017-03-25T10:28:56.835-04:00Boniface. Yeah, but Sisters aren't women in th...Boniface. Yeah, but Sisters aren't women in the modern sense of the word as their primary identify is not femaleMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-22026865186162165102017-03-25T00:20:10.262-04:002017-03-25T00:20:10.262-04:00The new liturgy basically sucks so we dress to the...The new liturgy basically sucks so we dress to the level of suck.<br /><br />Same thing happens in the military. If tradition is lost then why bother?James Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601404337397444540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-10190959060545414852017-03-21T19:53:41.008-04:002017-03-21T19:53:41.008-04:00The answer is NOT marketing. It gets results but l...The answer is NOT marketing. It gets results but lacks integrity. I saw it in the world of CBN. Alluring, but leaves an awful hangover and little nutritional results.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-59328127177357842382017-03-20T04:43:00.082-04:002017-03-20T04:43:00.082-04:00I know it has been covered extensively by others h...I know it has been covered extensively by others here, but again most of the problem is solved by going back to the old liturgy. This is not a throwaway line - I have seen it with my own eyes. I have been going to the Latin Mass since the late 90s - I am now married with 3 young children. We were recently blessed with the old Mass moving much closer. The parish has the NO and the Latin Mass. On the first day the Latin Mass was almost at capacity in the small chapel. Many young familes attend. In contast the Sunday morning NO is about the same number yet they are in the main Church, and are about 90% female and 80% grey haired. There is something at the old that is not present at the new, something that you want to conform to, learn about and unite with. You know that you are in contact with something holy and sublime, something you are completely unworthy of and yet you still want to be there. This desire is completely absent for me at the NO, in fact I find it repulsive because it one way or another it serves up the "I'm ok you're ok" heresy. I could go on and on but I'm sure you understand what I mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-23873719480358940852017-03-20T03:54:27.030-04:002017-03-20T03:54:27.030-04:00This kind of advertisement is cringeworthy.
So is ...This kind of advertisement is cringeworthy.<br />So is the aristocratic or crusader larping among some traddies.<br />Just, freakin', be a Christan worthy of the name and that's it...everything else is just accidental.Marko Ivančičevićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04579400863718513875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-27273484069194742872017-03-19T15:41:32.211-04:002017-03-19T15:41:32.211-04:00I think your bishop is trying to reach the guys di...I think your bishop is trying to reach the guys discussed in this article. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21st-century/<br /><br />This is a crisis. These men are ripe for conversion.Jane Galthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09284064166440602472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-89939100508568225442017-03-19T13:26:08.423-04:002017-03-19T13:26:08.423-04:00Hardly your religion's biggest problem, slight...Hardly your religion's biggest problem, slightly too much testosterone in an ad. Not only has Catholicism been saturated with estrogen --every local parish is really run by women-- but it has cast its lot with the Third World in the invasion of Europe and North America. How self-respecting men can support an organization dedicated to dismantling what their fathers built and putting their communities --and their women and children-- at such terrible risk, is beyond me. OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-1198136882103197282017-03-19T10:36:46.939-04:002017-03-19T10:36:46.939-04:00Nuns used to teach boys all the time.Nuns used to teach boys all the time.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-48468709341749348782017-03-19T10:33:56.425-04:002017-03-19T10:33:56.425-04:00Restore the Real Mass (Pre Pius XII Holy Week wrec...Restore the Real Mass (Pre Pius XII Holy Week wrecking ) as normative and kill the Pauline Rite.<br /><br />Fire ALL women who are head of Formation for Seminaries.<br /><br />Fire ALL women who are Chancellors of Dioceses.<br /><br />Order the "greeters" to tell all people speaking before Mass to be quiet because others are preparing for Mass.<br /><br />Parochial schools separated by sex with NO women teaching the boys.<br /><br />Restore gregorian Chant.<br /><br />Put the new ecumenism on a rack and torture it to death.<br /><br />Refuse to go to any "men's" event.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-44987968650086387632017-03-19T09:22:00.316-04:002017-03-19T09:22:00.316-04:00Longer liturgies, more standing or kneeling, male ...Longer liturgies, more standing or kneeling, male only altar servers, no EMHCs, more emphasis on, and blatant acceptance of, traditional teachings and liturgical feasts, e.g. Exaltation of the holy and life-giving Cross, entrance of Mary into the Temple, etc. without denaturing qualifiers such as "in the old days they used to believe...", more fasting not less, and how about Saturday or Sunday Vespers? Oh wait, that's what the Orthodox and the better Eastern Catholics are doing...So long, got to get to Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil on this Third Sunday of Great Lent, the veneration of the holy and life-giving Cross. A good 1 3/4 hours at our local Byzantine Catholic Church. Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-68545288007814582992017-03-19T09:04:00.138-04:002017-03-19T09:04:00.138-04:00I think Tim Allen is pretty funny too. He's fr...I think Tim Allen is pretty funny too. He's from my neck the woods so we're all very familiar with him up here. Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-55769207338872636572017-03-19T09:03:14.690-04:002017-03-19T09:03:14.690-04:00I concur with "John Lamb" here above (ad...I concur with "John Lamb" here above (adding the word "inquisition" to his<br />list, since my web site is www.inquisition.ca! ;-)<br />Also, it's Leviticus 19:28: "[...] do not tattoo yourselves. I am the LORD."www.inquisition.cahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646606229997692731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-44982907022665544002017-03-18T23:55:47.782-04:002017-03-18T23:55:47.782-04:00Hey hey, BBQ and foam are pretty popular down here...Hey hey, BBQ and foam are pretty popular down here in Texas. And Tim Allen is actually funny as the conservative hero on Last Man Standing.<br /><br /> But I know what you're saying, Boniface. A return to Tradition is the only answer. Bring back the oath against Modernism!Lasserre deVillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14658492637019888155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-32773633923342551592017-03-18T23:05:53.621-04:002017-03-18T23:05:53.621-04:00Female Anonymous wrote: "I have to laugh -- a...Female Anonymous wrote: "I have to laugh -- and seriously wonder -- when I hear that the Church isn't "manly" enough or doesn't appeal to men."<br /><br />All the examples you list are seriously filled with fags and sissy boys. No man in his right mind would associate with such poofs. <br /><br />Several years ago my local NO church bulletin came out a few years ago with a page welcoming the new "altar servers": 12 girls and 3 boys - all the boys were much younger than girls. <br /><br />So I started weekly checking in on other diocese bulletins around the country week by week. Sure enough, it's common place: young boys want nothing to do with the life the Church. And that is where the "man problem" starts. It is in fact a boy problem. There are no role models. Fr. James Martin EsJay sure as hell ain't it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-81939621693975824572017-03-18T16:31:12.374-04:002017-03-18T16:31:12.374-04:00I have to laugh -- and seriously wonder -- when I ...I have to laugh -- and seriously wonder -- when I hear that the Church isn't "manly" enough or doesn't appeal to men. There's a male-only priesthood as there has been for 2,000 years ; non-clerical religious vocations are open to men ; we worship a God-man ; we receive a God - man in Communion ; as clergy men make and enforce the rules, including the God-man who made the Divine Rules ; laymen serve in all types of capacities including teaching religious education & RCIA, ushering during Mass, Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, Canon lawyers, administrative offices at all levels of the Church ; men have male-only groups like the Knights of Columbus or the Men's Club, etc. etc. etc. I wonder what the male reaction was "back in the day" when Jesus was around speaking to Samaritan women at the well and pardoning Mary Magdalen. Signed -- female Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-52499053174847852512017-03-18T15:09:11.938-04:002017-03-18T15:09:11.938-04:00Spiritual discipline and courage mark the Christia...Spiritual discipline and courage mark the Christian walk. Christian men and women should have a hardness about them. It just is more apparent when spiritual softness is present in a man. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-43778340620375461532017-03-18T15:01:30.601-04:002017-03-18T15:01:30.601-04:00That's not fair, Nate. He could have gotten al...That's not fair, Nate. He could have gotten all those tattoos before his conversion or something. <br /><br />I have multiple tattoos, btw. Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-72381025529641595032017-03-18T12:38:23.376-04:002017-03-18T12:38:23.376-04:00Restore the concept "Church Militant", a...Restore the concept "Church Militant", a phrase not mentioned at all in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.<br /><br />Restore the sacrificial nature of the Mass, get rid of women around the altar, restore Gregorian Chant (remove sentimental trash in general).<br /><br />The first of these must come first. The Church lost its "masculinity" the same day it became squeamish about using words like "heretic", "schismatic", "apostate", "pagan". We all know when that day was.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858873453982708283noreply@blogger.com