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Church Is Two Hundred Years Behind: Behind What?

In his pre-Christmas address to the Curia, Francis invoked the late Cardinal Martini, who claimed in his last interview that “the Church is two hundred years behind.” “What, precisely, was the Church …More
In his pre-Christmas address to the Curia, Francis invoked the late Cardinal Martini, who claimed in his last interview that “the Church is two hundred years behind.”
“What, precisely, was the Church behind?” George Weigel asks on FirstThings.com (January 8),
“A culture that celebrates the imperial, autonomous Self? A culture that detaches sex from love and responsibility? A culture that breeds a politics of immediate gratification and intergenerational irresponsibility? Why on earth would the Church want to catch up with that?”
Weigel notices that those churches which that tried hardest to play catch-up with “history” and “the times” are collapsing.
As an example, he presents German-speaking Catholicism. Although it is imploding, the great majority of German bishops supports surrendering to “the times” with “a bullheadedness once caricatured as typically Prussian.”
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THe church is not 200 years behind ,only in the minds of some fools ,because .The church is the bride of our Lord , it is what it is ,its the past the present and the future .Its not to be modernized according to the new fantasies of the world ,But the world as it goes insane and corrupted with sin always has the Faith and Truth to come to ,Jesus is the Way ,Truth ,and Life ,and his bride THE CHURCH …More
THe church is not 200 years behind ,only in the minds of some fools ,because .The church is the bride of our Lord , it is what it is ,its the past the present and the future .Its not to be modernized according to the new fantasies of the world ,But the world as it goes insane and corrupted with sin always has the Faith and Truth to come to ,Jesus is the Way ,Truth ,and Life ,and his bride THE CHURCH ,is our home