Isn’t this cute? An ex-Jesuit Robert Blair Kaiser and friends want to found a new “catholic” church in the United States. You see, according to our former padre (to summarize):
The Fathers of Vatican II ushered in a golden age of openness, tolerance, and progressive action. Unfortunately, the dark forces of John Paul II and his diabolical collaborator, Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, clamped down on this movement of the Spirit, dragging the Church back to the Dark Ages. In light of this, thinking Catholics need to reclaim their Church — and maybe even start an American Catholic Church of their own.
Thank the heavens that we will be spared from the “dark ages” that Benedict XVI is planning. Here’s part of the plan:
We will write a Declaration of Autochthony, one that will challenge our priest-people and our people-people to work out a constitution for the American Church that carefully puts aside the Rome-based secretive, half-vast, culturally-conditioned legalisms codified in canon law in return for the kind of servant Church envisioned at Vatican II.
And don’t think that they think that this is to be an easy task.
This will be a political battle in a Church that has gotten us used to the idea that there’s something shady, maybe even something sinful, in trying to overturn the old pyramidal structure. We plead “not guilty” to that charge. But we do plead guilty in our wish to overturn — at least in the United States — what the last pope called “the divinely instituted hierarchical constitution of the Church.”
Check out the website at http://www.takebackourchurch.org/. Here’s the mission statement:
Seeking ownership and citizenship (read control) in the people’s Church (mind you it is no longer Christ’s Church, we’re in charge) envisioned (by us) at Vatican II, attended by accountable (we mean elected by the masses not selected by the Holy Spirit), listening (meaning manipulated) servant-bishops.
This guy better get busy before all the gray-haired liberal Vatican II type heretics are dead. They’ve got a lot of work to do!
