I'm a new Catholic, I can't presume to tell bishops or the Church how to think, and I must reserve judgment here. Nevertheless, Bp Lopes's remarks, and now what appears to be their larger context, strike me as problematic.
"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Monday, October 23, 2017
Bp Lopes And The Pray Tell Blog
I've noted here several times Bp Lopes's September interview at the Pray Tell Blog, where he made a particular troubling reference to the Tudor revolt as being half of some sort of "dual hermeneutic of reform", apparently equivalent to the Council of Trent and Vatican II in influence, if not authority. It now turns out that Fr Z characterizes Pray Tell as a "liberal liturgy blog".