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What does it take to make the people angry?
Dear Friends,
Tom McMahon attended talks at the University of San Francisco last week given by Bishop Geoff Roinson and Paul Lakeland. His commentary today takes a look at the audience reaction at those talks. He wonders what it takes to make people really upset enough that they will get off their buts and do something.
It's an interesting way of looking at things. In a sense the people have been angry with the Church for a long, long time. Their protest has been largely a silent one. They just quietly give up participating. We might ask: why has the protest been so muted? If 86% of the customers of any normal commercial business walked out the door the business would probably go bankrupt. If a political party lost 86% of its constituency it would find itself off the electoral map. Church is somehow different. People seem to have this sense that it is so big that it is useless getting angry or raising their voice in protest.
Today we read another sign in the news that Benedict is hell bent on appeasing the insecure elements in society and to hell with everyone else. It is rumoured a personal prelature is to be offered to the Lefebvrists to induce them to participate again. Where are the signs that the Pope and the leadership of the Church give two hoots about the vast majority in modern society who hunger for real spiritual direction and spiritual hope? <Read Tom's commentary>
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