{"id":10295,"date":"2011-06-30T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:20:11","slug":"not-funny-mr-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/30\/not-funny-mr-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Not funny, Mr. Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is bad – and if things like this spread, as I fear they are, we’ll all be the worse for it.<\/p>\n

OK, so Tim Drake at the National Catholic Register<\/em> is trying to be funny<\/a>. Great. I’ve never been accused of lacking in good humor. Too much Catholic worship today is trendy and tacky – no argument from me. Poke fun at it rather than a frontal attack. Could be a diplomatic strategy.<\/p>\n

But.<\/p>\n

Mr. Drake is swinging way too widely, and throwing a grab bag of things together that don’t belong together. Readers – and this NCR<\/em> has a lot of them – will get the idea that all 14 of his satirical “steps to a more self-centered church” without distinction are part of the Liberal Conspiracy To Destroy the Church.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

“9. Scrap the kneelers.” – \u00a0Respect for Eastern Orthodoxy, anyone? Or for the ancient traditions of Western Catholicism?<\/p>\n

“6. Better bread.” So no. 321 of the\u00a0General Instruction of the Roman Missal <\/em>is trying to take the focus off God when it emphasizes the “meaning of the sign” and the importance of the “true appearance of food”??\u00a0 <\/em>See also the comment on no. 9 supra<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“1. Move the tabernacle.” Why do you suppose 314b of the General Instruction<\/em> allows for side chapels for eucharistic reservation? Why do you suppose they have one at St. Peter’s Basilica?<\/p>\n

OK, so there are plenty of problems with postconciliar Catholic worship. The problem with people like Tim Drake is that they can’t distinguish the problems from the well-founded reforms. They pretty much don’t like any of it.<\/p>\n

Not helpful.<\/p>\n

awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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