Be Catholic first. Not conservative or liberal first. Not American or any other nationality first. Everything else should be secondary and subordinate to our Christian faith.
C.S. Lewis said somewhere that Protestants look at Catholics and see an overgrown jungle—”What is all this stuff?” Catholics look at Protestants and see a barren desert—”Where is everything?”
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The Novus Ordo did not appear out of nowhere but was the result of many decades of tinkering with the liturgy. Some folks seem to think “all was well” before the Second Vatican Council in the halls of power at the Vatican, and that the liturgical trainwreck happened only in the 1960s. This is so far from being the truth that it is painfu…