From an unofficial Anglican ordinariate page: "Are there any former Anglicans who have joined the Roman Church by way of the Ordinariate wondering if they have been hoodwinked? Instead of carnivals in Anglican cathedrals in England, you have worship of pagan images in the Basilica in Rome."
I'm not in the ordinariate but was a born Anglican. I strongly felt that way when converting in the 1980s. Leaving people who at least knew how to to do liturgical worship for a bunch of weird self-haters who'd lost their nerve with the modern world, claiming that church teachings had changed, joining the enemy, and out-low-churching the low-church Anglicans. It took a long time including long spells back outside the church for me to figure out. The liberals who ran almost everything Catholic 35 years ago were wrong. Our teachings didn't change. They can't. They can't be swept away by a General Synod or General Convention vote! So the Amazon Synod, Pachamama and all that, etc. don't faze me. The church can write new services and recently has done, the Novus Ordo, but we don't have to believe the changes are ordered by the Holy Spirit or have to like them. Thanks to the Eastern rites (I am now Byzantine), Summorum Pontificum (I am much formed by the traditional Latin Mass), and the Anglican Use, now the ordinariates, we don't even have to use them!
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
I think Trads understand what you're saying, but from the point of view of non-Christians (and especially monied interests supporting the globalists), the Catholic Church is just another human institution that can change itself via Pontifical fiat--and they can even point to VI to emphasize that latter point.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes this even harder to prove is that the average Catholic is not a 21st century St. Jerome but a semiliterate 3rd world overburdened peasant whose only thought is likely "Pope say it's good so it's good."