Looking at a statement like this, I can see someone easily arguing for the arbitrariness of the sign, so that anything should be able to stand for the 12 apostles, so long as it is recognized as standing for them.
Actually, it is fairly arbitrary, and I do support the changing of the discipline. There should be no problem with only choosing men, or only choosing women, or choosing both, and some bishops have changed discipline within their diocese - as is their authority to do. However, I do not support the means. This is the Triduum, the highest, most significant liturgy of the whole year. I highly object to distracting from it with protests and demonstrations. I object to the protestors putting their own issues and politics before this holy time.
Given how long Catholicism has been of Western culture, and its integral part in developing Western culture — I am thinking of that whole middle period — why cannot one say that Western culture is Catholic culture, and that if Western culture does not appear to be what we think Catholic culture should look like, then perhaps our image of Catholic culture has been mistaken, and we are in fact living in it now?
Western culture and catholic culture diverged even before the Reformation - that is largely what necessitated it - and have only diverged more and more since. I would say that in contemporary times, Catholic values and Western values have more points of contention than coincidence.
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Date: 2004-04-09 06:04 pm (UTC)Actually, it is fairly arbitrary, and I do support the changing of the discipline. There should be no problem with only choosing men, or only choosing women, or choosing both, and some bishops have changed discipline within their diocese - as is their authority to do. However, I do not support the means. This is the Triduum, the highest, most significant liturgy of the whole year. I highly object to distracting from it with protests and demonstrations. I object to the protestors putting their own issues and politics before this holy time.
Given how long Catholicism has been of Western culture, and its integral part in developing Western culture — I am thinking of that whole middle period — why cannot one say that Western culture is Catholic culture, and that if Western culture does not appear to be what we think Catholic culture should look like, then perhaps our image of Catholic culture has been mistaken, and we are in fact living in it now?
Western culture and catholic culture diverged even before the Reformation - that is largely what necessitated it - and have only diverged more and more since. I would say that in contemporary times, Catholic values and Western values have more points of contention than coincidence.