Friends, Fr. Zuhlsdorf (known to just about anyone who would be reading this page) has posted to his blog an article entitled “Shut up, pray for the man, keep doing your thing, and stay out of sight”.
His combox is closed. I really have no objection to that as I never opened mine.
However, if I were to comment I might say this:
“It almost feels like you’re telling a lot of people to just shut up and let ‘professionals’ do their jobs. Oh wait, you literally are telling people to shut up. It’s the first words of your title. Also, we get that you’ve got credentials in the inter-blogo thing. You’ve been doing it for years. Yay. If my math is correct, you’ve had an online presence for almost half as long as I’ve been Catholic which is to say, my entire life so that’s gotta count for some cred for me, right? Speaking of… I’m going to quote your friend’s ’sage advice’ here. ‘there is no reason to pressure him [presumably Leo] and the good guys around him into hating you because you want to see your (often childish) agenda implemented by them NOW’. I don’t know about the people to whom you are referring, Fr., but the only agenda I want to see is the Catholic faith. If that’s an unrealistic demand on a bishop or even a pope, I offer my humble apologies.”
Guess I’ll just shut up and let the internet priests and their chat group friends do all the talking from now on. I couldn’t smoothly translate the Latin at the end.
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