The Charade of World Youth Day
The Pope has recently arrived in his native Germany to celebrate World Youth Day. This event has received quite a lot of coverage not only in the Catholic press but mainstream news as well. I already gave my opinion about these events in a previous post where I basically denounced them as nothing more than "Woodstock-style gatherings trying to cloak themselves in Catholic truth." The coverage I've seen on the events in Colonge only seem to confirm my view.
Possibly one of the most ridiculous things to occur in relation to this event is how a certain teen magazine is passing out posters of the Pope. As teeny-boppers often like to say puleeze!
I must say I'm not at all impressed, either as a young person or as a Catholic. These celebrations show how far the Church has degraded itself in recent years. And I'm certainly not alone in this assessment. Marian T. Horvat wrote an interesting review of a book exposing the charade that World Youth Day truly is, and how it does not serve Catholic truth in any meaningful way.
It's been reported that Pope Benedict plans on "reaching out" to Muslims and Jews while he's in Colonge. I find this very disappointing, and contrary to the portrait Robert Spencer painted of him as the "Enemy of Jihad". Islam has been the antithesis of Christian Europe for countless centuries; why on earth would you want to "reach out" to them, especially when Islam continues to threaten Europe's very existence? This just does not make any f**king sense!
I had high hopes for Pope Benedict XVI, but recent events have caused much disillusionment in my assessment of him. I probably settle into another love-hate opinion I had for the previous Pontiff, John Paul II.
Possibly one of the most ridiculous things to occur in relation to this event is how a certain teen magazine is passing out posters of the Pope. As teeny-boppers often like to say puleeze!
I must say I'm not at all impressed, either as a young person or as a Catholic. These celebrations show how far the Church has degraded itself in recent years. And I'm certainly not alone in this assessment. Marian T. Horvat wrote an interesting review of a book exposing the charade that World Youth Day truly is, and how it does not serve Catholic truth in any meaningful way.
It's been reported that Pope Benedict plans on "reaching out" to Muslims and Jews while he's in Colonge. I find this very disappointing, and contrary to the portrait Robert Spencer painted of him as the "Enemy of Jihad". Islam has been the antithesis of Christian Europe for countless centuries; why on earth would you want to "reach out" to them, especially when Islam continues to threaten Europe's very existence? This just does not make any f**king sense!
I had high hopes for Pope Benedict XVI, but recent events have caused much disillusionment in my assessment of him. I probably settle into another love-hate opinion I had for the previous Pontiff, John Paul II.
posted by Perun at
8:02 AM
5 Comments:
What's wrong with World Youth Day? Tell us, Ms Horvat!
It was always against Catholic morals for youth of mixed sexes to travel together like one big family for camping trips or overnight retreats. These strange new practices disregard the reality of original sin; they follow a loose new morality of a post-Vatican II Church.
Oh, man! And Horvat's article has pictures depicting SCANDALOUS behavior: a sleepover, "rocking," and :: gasp :: hugging and kissing! Madonna!
Are chocolate sundaes against "pre-conciliar, traditional catholic morals," too? I hope not. But by the looks of it, it might be. :(
I know that my sarcastic remarks dont' constitute an argument. To this I say, "COME ON, MAN!" If you can't see that the mass of humanity convening together in Germany, waiting to hear the Good News from the mouth of Christ's Vicar, if you can't see a sign there, in the love and faith that brings them together... if you think that the unbelievers around them don't notice... then you don't understand WYD at all. We are lucky to have a pope that does.
PS There is nothing wrong with peaceful dialogue with muslims and jews. We've been doing it since 1492, after the reconquista, when the bishop of Toledo brought together scholars from all three faiths to translate Aristotle together. A little bit of charity is in order here, methinks.
There's nothing more patethic than pop culture bullsh*t cloaking itself in Catholic truth, and this is nothing more than a mockery to the tradition of pilgramage.
The more "hip" and "cool" the churches try to make faith look, the more idiotic it becomes.
Oh, come on. When will you tire of fighting the war against fun? If you can watch five minutes of the WYD coverage and remain convince that there is nothing there, then I don't know what to tell ya.
Im not waging a war against fun. Im not an Evangelical Puritan who engages in petty-moralism. Those people have no concept of fun.
However what counts as "fun" these days usually just means trivalizing what really matters in the world.
I appreciate your distinction. But I don't think WYD was a triviliazation of the important things. You only have to read B16's speech to know that.
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