I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
The Church is not Wal-Mart
October 21, 2008
Not that the good Reader needs to be informed of this fact, but there it is: the Church is not . The Church is the Bride of Christ, not some emporium wherein you can pick and choose what you want to believe this week. Father Philip Neri Powell provides a handy list of reasons why this is.
Best, and most relevant (to my circumstances, at any rate — YMMV, good Reader) excerpt from Fr. Philip’s article? There are two:
6). Leaving the Catholic Church because a priest was mean to you, or because sister whacked you with a ruler, or because the church secretary looked at you funny is as stupid as giving up on the truths of math because you hate your high school algebra teacher. Why would anyone let a crazy priest or a cranky nun or anyone else for the matter drive you out of the faith you believe is true? My only conclusion: you never thought it was true to begin with; or, you have a favorite sin the Church teaches against and crazy priests and cranky nuns is as good an excuse as any to leave and pursue your sin all the while feeling justified b/c Father and/or Sister are such jerks.
And:
9). The Catholic Church owes no one a revision of her doctrine or dogma. She didn’t change to save most of Europe from becoming Protestant, why would you imagine that she would change just to get you in one of her parishes?
It’s this last point, I think, that I find most resonates with me. In theological debates with family and friends, one sub-current that always pervades the discussion is this sense of raw entitlement, the sense that somehow the Church owes it to people to “catch up with the times,” or whatever. Simply put: it owes no such thing to any person or persons.
And if, good Reader, you’re one of those folks who has opted to make your participation in the Mass contingent on the Church adapting a particular point of doctrine to a whim of yours, do refer back to point #6 above — is it perhaps relevant?
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