The New Quietism: “Tuning Out What the Pope Says So I Can Save My Soul”

The New Quietism: “Tuning Out What the Pope Says So I Can Save My Soul”
A week when “don’t listen to Rome” became the pastoral plan, a non-Catholic took Communion, and the revolution kept its course.
Kennedy Hall has finally said the quiet part out loud: stop watching the papal circus and just be Catholic. The testimony about leaving a corrupted school system rings true, and the fatigue with weaponized ambiguity is universal. But spiritual triage cannot become strategic surrender. When shepherds teach confusion publicly, the faithful cannot be catechized privately into silence. If the post-conciliar papacy has become a noise machine, that is not a reason to mute the crisis; it is the crisis. Catholics have always had to pray like monks and fight like crusaders. If we outsource the fight to “Pelican Plus” and focus only on personal devotions, we will wake up with tidy prayer lives and no public Mass.
There is wisdom in refusing the doom-scroll. There is danger in pretending that the …