Minneapolis-St. Paul is a test market. It was a test market for Mass said versus populum in the 30s, for Communion in the hand, for female altar servers, and now, almost paradoxically, it is a test market for Ultramontanism and authoritarianism. How this happened is a mystery to us, but perhaps, wherever evil thrives, good abounds.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Only individuals in good standing with the Catholic church can be invited to speak at churches or other Catholic venues or be considered for an award from the church, according to a new policy issued by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
"The speaker's writings and previous public presentations must also be in harmony with the teaching and discipline of the church," it said.
"A priest who left the ministerial priesthood without dispensation would not be eligible for consideration. Those in irregular marriages or those living a lifestyle at variance with church teaching would also not be eligible," it said.
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"Minneapolis-St. Paul is a test market. It was a test market for Mass said versus populum in the 30s, for Communion in the hand, for female altar servers, and now, almost paradoxically, it is a test market for Ultramontanism and authoritarianism. How this happened is a mystery to us, but perhaps, wherever evil thrives, good abounds".
Apparently, you are really not familar with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. When you state, "how this happened is a mystery to us" it supports my claim. For more time then we care to remember this archdiocese has been forced to live under two archbishops who practiced Vatican 11 procedures so much they lost their way and would rather be popular instead of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They were both pro-gay, in fact pro-anything as long as it was liberal new age feel good preaching. We have always had good orthodox priests, but they were silenced by both of these bishops and the disedents had those bishops ears. I won't mention the first bishop by name becaused he recently passed on and I don't want to speak negatively about the dead. The second archbishop's name is Harry Flynn and he made his predecessor look orthodox. It was any thing goes during his tenure and many priests were banished to the boondocks when they preached the Magesterium teachings of the Church.
For more then a year now we have had a new archbishop, John Nienstedt and it should not as you state. "as being a mystery to us" because this Archbishop personally turned everything around by cleaning out the Chancery of it's liberal dead wood. And this has been for the better of the archdiocese and it keeps getting better, and yet he has done this in little more then a year. Wait until he concludes his work, for I believe when the job is over we will be looked at as one of the premier dioceses in the USA.
Ray
This Diocese has been problematic at least since the time of Archbishop Ireland and it remains unclear, despite the current Archbishop's attitude toward dissenters, what it will look like in the coming years. Whatever he may have done to the Chancery staff certainly hasn't made itself felt in the rest of the Archdiocese and his support of CCHD is troubling.
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