Your excellencies, the overwhelming vast majority of Catholic bloggers ARE NOT your enemies. We are your nearest allies. Nobody will rise to your defense faster, and more ferociously, than we Catholic bloggers when you exercise your episcopal authority to protect God's flock from the wolves in sheeps' clothing. Do your job dear shepherds, and we will come to your aid. This you can be sure of.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Vatican Honors Catholic Bloggers
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: The USCCB, and bishops across the United States, should take note of this....
Your excellencies, the overwhelming vast majority of Catholic bloggers ARE NOT your enemies. We are your nearest allies. Nobody will rise to your defense faster, and more ferociously, than we Catholic bloggers when you exercise your episcopal authority to protect God's flock from the wolves in sheeps' clothing. Do your job dear shepherds, and we will come to your aid. This you can be sure of.
Your excellencies, the overwhelming vast majority of Catholic bloggers ARE NOT your enemies. We are your nearest allies. Nobody will rise to your defense faster, and more ferociously, than we Catholic bloggers when you exercise your episcopal authority to protect God's flock from the wolves in sheeps' clothing. Do your job dear shepherds, and we will come to your aid. This you can be sure of.
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This is well Said Sir Knight.
Unfortunately, other unsavoury elements of the Catholic Blogosphere have "taken over" so to speak with their negative tones, bishop bashing, and overall attitude of "We're more Catholic than the clergy" attitudes.
In comparison I will use you and two other bloggers for example. When you, Sir Knight, post and criticise, your tone is critical, but still contains charity, intellectualism, and you always back it up with solid links/evidence. It is not criticism with an angry tone like two children in a schoolyard or the class tattletale. Rather it is one of the highest forms of debating like that of structured competitions.
However, others, like Pacheco of So Con or Bust (at times) and Michael Voris of St. Michael's Media/RealCatholic TV have a no holds barred style which is highly negative and critical, and one can tell by reading their posts/video blogging they contain much anger in them. Now look, if bishops are up to no good, we do have the right to call out liturgical and other abuse. However when that becomes your constant mandate, even us traditional Catholics get turned off. Worse, their "Conservative Catholicism" can get to the point of skirting ultra trad lines, so much that Catholicculture.org has given Voris' RealCatholicTV a caution for extreme antipathy to the Ordinary Form of the Mass. Voris also desires a Catholic Monarchy and even expresses views contrary to Vatican II (he bashes it pretty good in a CIA expose as well as the "bugini" New Mass (NO)) such as with regards to ecuminism. If you are anti Vatican II and express views contrary to the Magisterium's documents, aren't you in essence Anti-Catholic? And yet he has the nerve at that Hilary White blogmeet in that pub to say "hey I'm not the bad guy here and I'm just winning Souls for Christ."
As for Pacheco, He's also constantly harping on Fr. Rosica of Salt and Light TV as well as the CCCB. P's biggest beef is with D & P under the CCCB, and their funding of international partners who fund abortions or related activities. Mind you, finally it was brought to life in mainstream Catholic Media thanks to Fr. De Souza of the Catholic Register so there was some credibility there.
However if one reads both men's posts daily, without mental restraint, one will gradually shift to a psychological mindset of anger and hatred of the institutional Church so much that they will trust no clergy member outside of specific bishops, the Roman Curia and B16, and think everyone else who doesn't share their super-traditional mindset or clergy who are moral wimps and "bad Catholics."
And so, Sir Knight, this perhaps can shed some light on why the Vatican, as well as others like myself are being cautious. Yes perhaps politics is at play, but as a whole like Elisabeth Scalia, the Anchoress alluded too, the world of blogging is a "wild west" that is unregulated and unfortunately people with "holier than thou" attitudes are being given a voice on here and it's mucking up the true purpose of Catholic blogging. And this is coming from a self-admitted hothead too.
It's nice to see the Vatican trying to avoid a repeat of what happened after Gutenberg...
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