What Goes on at ACTA Meetings?

Do you ever wonder what happens at those A Call to Action (ACTA) meetings that gather to discuss how to make sodomy more acceptable in the Church or how ecumenical dialogue with the Zoroastrians is really paying dividends, when the topic switches to liturgy?

Oh felt banners are all the rage, as are syrupy hymns with words like "you are cup Lord, I am the drink..." and so on. Somewhat surprisingly the issue of (in-flight style) sick bags in the book-holders on the pews rarely comes up.

And if you forget where you are and bring up thuribles and incense rather than Tracey from the Co-Op dishing out the Eucharist... well you'll get a passive-aggressive whisper in your shell-like.

You plonker!

Dare we Hope for an African Pope?

Cardinal Turkson - a "favourite"

If there's one thing I love, it's when liberals are forced into a dilemma. They want to go for the most outwardly "pc" option, but to do so would weaken them. It's akin to watching those head-exploding sections of the 70's horror film Scanners.

A classic example of this is the gossip now breaking out re. who the next Pope will be. Of course, media-heads with no knowledge or real interest in the Church are saying "wouldn't it be great to see an African or Latin American as Pope." I think they are sincere. They are just going with the flow, and in the shadow of the fanfares that greeted the presidency of Obama, they are excited at the prospect of a non-European/White Pope.

So am I! Many have said that if the next Pope is a Cardinal from outside Europe/North America then there is hope he will be more conservative/traditionalist than one from within those continents. The liberals suspect this too, and a few have made noises in that regard.

And this is their dilemma. The talking-heads have said how wonderful a non-White Pope would be. And now liberal Catholics are having to umm and err, and say why we need a European Pope. One on TV tried to say how an Italian was needed, the implication was that a non-Italian (Benedict XVI) was too 'hardline' on contraception, women priests, gays and abortion; so an Italian would keep the Church (in their terms) "moving forwards."

Watching the liberals try and explain to non-religious and semi-ignorant TV presenters why a "black Pope" would be such a bad thing without saying as much is quite simply hilarious.

So here's to the next Pope whoever he is. Perhaps an African or Latin American Pope would continue to fight against militant secularism and relativism. One thing's for sure, if the next Pope does 'fight the good fight' as we all hope and pray, the media bosses will give him as rough a time as they gave Pope Benedict, so he's going to need our prayers.

And if he's a liberal?... Well he'll need our prayers even more.

Don't Take THE TABLET - It's Promoting Schism and Heresy

Quote:
Since it has carried Hans Küng's statement of liberal sedevacantism, The Tablet ought no longer to be distributed on church premises.

Link:
Don't Take The Tablet