by Mali Farnsworth

Created on: June 23, 2009

Should the Catholic Church under Pope Benedict XVI reverse the reforms of the Vatican II council in the 1960's?

Yes, absolutely yes... that is if the Holy Father would see the Catholic Church remain or, rather, regain the dignity and glory of being the true Bride of Christ.

Oh, there are those who equate the 'old' mass and the 'old' ways with just that, being old. There's no point in Shakespeare for these people either. No point in fine dining. Fast food and a video will do. Everything must be current, approachable. The lowest common denominator is what works best for the masses. Dare I say, 'No Child left Behind?'.

Well, this child was left behind. Having been raised in a 'Catholic' family during the turbulent 60's/70's, folks masses, communion the size of an Italian round loaf, and Kum Bah Yah are no stranger to me. They are, however, gladly left in the past. For it was, in fact, the mundane, the everyday approachability of the Vatican II attempt to please people in lieu of Almighty God that left this Catholic cold.

True union with God became the search for a better band. The holy sacrifice, that's the sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus on the Cross, to His heavenly Father, became a blase love-in. Distracting, cloying in the press for a 'kiss of peace', me-oriented in the grab to take more and more of the priest's job-please!.

If an overeager cleric, no matter how holy, attempted to raise my children... he wouldn't. Not for a minute. Everything has its time, it's place, and its OWN duty of state before God.

The 'I'm Every Woman' song is just a study in obsessive perfectionism and pride. No, we are not every woman. We are not 'all' father's, mothers, nuns, priests, altar boys, organists, bishops, choir members, etc. Catholicism does not embrace 'all' religious sects. If she did, she wouldn't be Catholic. The pretence that she does accept all these falsehoods is just that... pretence.

Like an old woman convinced her value lay only in what's on the surface, Vatican II put Holy Mother Church to the knife. Her face is marred beyond recognition now by decades of unnecessary plastic surgery. Think botox gone bad, collagen overdone, cheek implants and a collapsed cartilege for a nose. Her own children no longer recognize her, hence comments equating her rich tradition with boring ceremony.

A priest who faces God with the people is considered an affront. The Blessed Sacrament is just a symbol... right?. And sin is just a learning experience, no biggie.

Holy Mother

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