Post by homeschooldad on Mar 3, 2024 23:30:10 GMT
www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bishop-strickland-pens-open-letter-calling-pope-francis-and-all-bishops-to-return-to-christ/
I've had two people here in town bring up to me, without my asking first, that they read LifeSiteNews (no "LSN Derangement Syndrome" here, that's the bailiwick of a few, most people don't care one way or the other). One was a lady at my parish I got to talking to in the office, and another, mirabile dictu, was a contractor I had in a few days ago doing some home improvements for me (and this is not a heavily Catholic area, though with all the transplants, we're getting there). I casually mentioned that my mother had received Extreme Unction (or, as I said, "the last rites", because people in general have some idea of what that is), he mentioned Viaticum, my eyes got about as big as saucers, found out that he was a Catholic with some background in apologetics, and just like that, bestie for life. It's not every day that you hire a contractor and end up talking about extra ecclesiam nulla salus and quicumque vult salvus esse. (He is also, as I discovered as the conversation deepened, not crazy about Pope Francis. What cheek! Where is the docility, I ask you?) We spent all day working on the house and interspersing our work with traditional Catholic observations. Small world, indeed. He didn't know about the TLM out in Mayberry, almost an hour's schlep for either of us, and I invited him to check it out. And, yes, he takes a dim view of dissenters from Humanae vitae (and he was the one who brought it up, not me, don't worry, I didn't go off on a rant as per usual, we were too busy working on equipment). As I said, bestie for life.
I've had two people here in town bring up to me, without my asking first, that they read LifeSiteNews (no "LSN Derangement Syndrome" here, that's the bailiwick of a few, most people don't care one way or the other). One was a lady at my parish I got to talking to in the office, and another, mirabile dictu, was a contractor I had in a few days ago doing some home improvements for me (and this is not a heavily Catholic area, though with all the transplants, we're getting there). I casually mentioned that my mother had received Extreme Unction (or, as I said, "the last rites", because people in general have some idea of what that is), he mentioned Viaticum, my eyes got about as big as saucers, found out that he was a Catholic with some background in apologetics, and just like that, bestie for life. It's not every day that you hire a contractor and end up talking about extra ecclesiam nulla salus and quicumque vult salvus esse. (He is also, as I discovered as the conversation deepened, not crazy about Pope Francis. What cheek! Where is the docility, I ask you?) We spent all day working on the house and interspersing our work with traditional Catholic observations. Small world, indeed. He didn't know about the TLM out in Mayberry, almost an hour's schlep for either of us, and I invited him to check it out. And, yes, he takes a dim view of dissenters from Humanae vitae (and he was the one who brought it up, not me, don't worry, I didn't go off on a rant as per usual, we were too busy working on equipment). As I said, bestie for life.