{"id":325,"date":"2010-05-08T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=325"},"modified":"2010-05-09T06:12:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T12:12:53","slug":"put-not-your-trust-in-princes%e2%80%a6nor-in-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/put-not-your-trust-in-princes%e2%80%a6nor-in-committees-325.htm","title":{"rendered":"Put Not Your Trust In Princes\u2026Nor in Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credo Ut Intellegam<\/a> has been suffering through the news from the German Church, and I feel largely the way he does:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wenn mir etwas Angst macht, dann ist es die Naivit\u00e4t, mit der momentan die \u00fcblichen Patentrezepte als Allheilmittel ins Spiel gebracht werden: vox temporis – vox Dei, verheirateter Weltklerus, Laienmitsprache und -mitverantwortung, innerkirchliche Frauenf\u00f6rderung etc. Ich habe inzwischen einiges an Laiengremien gesehen, von innen und von au\u00dfen, ich kenne meine Mitchristen recht gut und f\u00fcrchte, sie sind genauso unheilig wie ich. Sie sind genauso egoistisch, rechthaberisch, feige, heuchlerisch, geistig rigide und glaubensm\u00e4\u00dfig frigide wie ich und wie viele der aktuellen geweihten “Machthaber”. Woher der Optimismus, Hochw\u00fcrdigster Herr Erzbischof, Ihr Damen und Herren der R\u00e4te und Komitees? Ich f\u00fcrchte, ich kann da nicht folgen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(snip)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meine Hoffnung setze ich nicht mehr auf die Strukturen, die “Verfestigungen und Verkrustungen” von heute (Schick<\/em>) noch auf die Strukturen von morgen, gleich wie liquide und flexibel sie sein m\u00f6gen. Meine Hoffnung ist Jesus <\/em>Christus; meine Hoffnung sind die Gottesmutter und die unabsehbare Schar der Heiligen, in denen die Liebe GOttes aufscheint; meine Hoffnung ist die erbarmende Gnade, wie sie mir Unw\u00fcrdigem im Wort des Wortes, in den Sakramenten entgegentritt, und zwar egal, wie unw\u00fcrdig der Mund und die H\u00e4nde des Spenders sind.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If anything causes me anxiety, then it is na\u00efvet\u00e9 that comes into play with the current patent medicines as cure-alls: vox temporis \u2013 vox Dei, married secular clergy, lay dialogue and co-responsibility, promotion of women within the church, etc. I have in the meantime seen some on committees, seen, from within and from without — I know my fellow Christians all too well and fear that they are just as unholy as I am. They are just as egoistic, bossy, lazy, hypocritical, spiritually rigid and coldly mediocre in faith as I am and many of the current ordained Powers-That-Be are. Whence the optimism, Most Honorable Archbishop, ladies and gentlemen of counsels and committees? I am afraid that I can\u2019t follow you there.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I do not put my hope in structures, neither in the \u201cbastions and fossilized structures\u201d of today nor in the structures of tomorrow, no matter how fluid and flexible they might be. My hope is Jesus Christ, my hope is the Mother of God and the incalculable crowd of saints, through whom the love of God shines. My hope is in merciful grace, which encounters me, all unworthy, in the word of the Word, in the sacraments, and no matter how unworthy the mouth and the hand of the ministers\u00a0<\/span>be.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the general principle that Malt does more than Milton can, I also recommend his blog \u201cA Song for the Day of German Beer.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Credo Ut Intellegam has been suffering through the news from the German Church, and I feel largely the way he does:\u00a0 Wenn mir etwas Angst macht, dann ist es die Naivit\u00e4t, mit der momentan die \u00fcblichen Patentrezepte als Allheilmittel ins Spiel gebracht werden: vox temporis – vox Dei, verheirateter Weltklerus, Laienmitsprache und -mitverantwortung, innerkirchliche Frauenf\u00f6rderung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-church","category-clergy-sex-abuse","category-sacraments","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}