Negative Space: Catholicism
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- The St. Michael Hymnal
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“…the hymnal retains the traditional language of the hymns, with no politically driven language. The very few changes in texts are poetic or practical choices. … [it] is still the only Catholic hymnal in this country that includes substantially the entire contents of “Jubilate Deo,” the collection of Gregorian chants that Pope Paul VI sent to all bishops in 1976, asking that they be preserved.”
- Peoples Mass Book (1966)
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“Daily propers, forty hours adoration, ordinary of the Mass, sung Masses, psalms sacraments, and Bible services for participation of the faithful at Mass and other services according to the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.”
- The Popular Belief That Empties Churches
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“Belief in human goodness has become an article of faith for many Christians… For the Catholic Church, the belief has served as a wrecking ball… If human beings are good the way they are, then there is no need for a Savior to free us from our sins.”
- Matthew 5
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Matthew, chapter 5, from the Catholic New American Bible. “He went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them.”
Pope rescinds Galileo apology: “Mankind is the center of the universe, after all.”
One of the interesting things about old calendars that are also something else—such as a cookbook—is that they follow seasons that no longer exist.
“By their deeds shall they be known.” But by their deeds rather than their words, the Catholic Church is dangerously pro-human trafficking. And by elevating good intentions over deeds, they are falling dangerously into pagan thought.
While the holidays brought more examples of bowdlerized lyrics they also brought, at least to our church, a lit candle for the darkness, in the form of a new hymnal that retains sound Catholic theology.
The modern world makes an evil out of sharing, and then complains that too many people go hungry.