At RNS, Mark Silk comments on Tom Roberts' reporting on the finances at the Knights of...
MGB:_Hartford’s experience reflects what is happening elsewhere as Catholics who were baptized in these parishes not only avoid the priesthood, they leave the Church altogether, with the possible exception of Christmas, Easter, Weddings and Funerals. It is tempting to say this is because of magisterial authoritarism on birth control and women priests (a better guess than those who claim that the Mass was so watered down by Vatican II that they rejected the New order), but it is most likely that they simply don’t feel forced to go and if they had gone, they may not have really believed anyway. The social pressure to go to Church is gone, along with most family pressure. People feel that all they need is to be a good person, and they may be right.
In the last Administration, Catholic Charities and Catholic Health had more influence than the Knights, who funded the pro-life movement to give us a billionaire who will likley do little to decrease abortion or make it less available, since there is not much he can do, Recall that pro-life true believer George W. Bush gave us two justices that refused Scalia’s request to defend the Partial Birth Abortion Act by repealing Roe (which was the reason for passing it in the first place), with Roberts saving Obamacare.
The Francis-Trump meeting will either be a grip and grin or a scolding. Either way, it will lead to Trump making Tweets that prove he is a national embarrassment.
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