Some jottings about the news- Your average American Catholic. From a liberal Catholic magazine ("parish community"; snort) but still pretty good. I'm not very ethnic but I'm your lax layman from 50 years ago; I show up at Mass and hope I talk to a priest before checkout time.
- The Holy See recognizes Palestine.
- Pat Buchanan on the Tory win in Britain.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Your average American Catholic, and more
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A long time ago, I realised that one has to interpret "active participation" yourself. For me it means "showing up." Not "showing up on time," not "showing up and paying complete attention," and definitely not "showing up on time and following along every word in the book." Those are good, but not essential. Often it means "showing up and looking at the pictures," which in Italy is often a very good thing. But showing up is the baseline.
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