Sometimes, when talking to younger audiences, the theologian Lisa Sowle Cahill will describe herself as a “relic” of the distant and benighted era before the Second Vatican Council. In those years, she recalls, it never occurred to her to question why the priest was always a man, or why girls were advised to select confirmation names from a prodigious list of those who chos (...)
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Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Middle Way
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At this time Vatican II Catholics are bailing out in increasing numbers and our younger ones are ignoring the Faith altogether. Maybe Cahill and other married lay theologians can develop/spread the concept of Domestic Church as she mentions .. This concept/practice along with 'preferential option for the poor' could be the 'surge ideas' that will stop the continuing meltdown. Bishops and clergy ignore these concepts/stances for all the obvious reasons. One of the recent hierarchal' big concerns was the failure of the USCCB vice-president not being elected to USCCB president. The dying orgs Moose, Lions, Elks and Kiwanis have these succession concerns too!