Let's get back to basics. What was the purpose of the Council? Bl John XXIII of happy memory described it as follows at the opening of the Council:
The greatest concern of the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.The Council calls us to believe more firmly and profess our faith more clearly. The Association of Catholic Priests would rather have us wring our hands and re-shape the Church according to the mores of contemporary society rather than vigorously engage with life and culture drawing on the riches of the Christian tradition.
(I also note that they're not very keen on the corrected translation of the Roman Missal which will be issued next year.)
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I was very disappointed to hear that so many Priests attended that meeting. The secular media said 300attended but I believe this was not accurate as less than 200 attended according to the Catholic Voice newspaper. Perhaps instead a new Confraternity of Priests could meet such as the one in Australia ..http://www.australianccc.org/
Their aims are as follows:
* To give glory and honour to the Most Blessed Trinity
* To assist the eternal salvation and holiness of members
* To foster unity among Catholic Priests and deacons with the bishops in loyalty to the Supreme Magisterium
* To encourage faithfulness to priestly life and ministry
* To assist bishops, priests, and deacons in the fulfilment of their ministry of teaching, sanctifying, and ruling.
That is something that could help many Priests and lay people.
This Irish Association has nothing to offer Priests or lay people. It will lead to a dead end...
Quite ironic that the Association would claim to be great supporters of the Spirit of Vatican II. Yet when the majority of laity ( particularly women ) showed their disgust at the recent discredited Mass boycott, the Association supported the elitist anti-Catholic media, & not the Catholic laity. Crazy & mixed up are two descriptions that come to mind.
Surely these enthusiastic Spirit of Vatican II merchants, should have supported the vast majority of the Catholio laity in Ireland, who were deeply offended by the recent proposed Mass boycott, & who attended in even greater numbers ( particularly women ), to show their disapproval of the boycott. But no, the Association was too busy ingratiating itself with the anti-Catholic Irish media. With friends like that !.
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