I guess a plan by a priest in to put up a crucifix with a fully nude Jesus counts as evangelization in San Franciso. More wackiness from St. Anne’s Parish Community in Discovery Bay in the diocese of Oakland.
The Parish of the Next Millenium
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Barf!
I really hope that this is another one of your parodies Jeff, but I think not.
The money quote: “with a better balance between male and female spiritualities”
What?!? This sounds like the First United Church of “It’s all about ME!”
Pray, pray, pray!
I think that “barf” is a good reaction to this. (She typed, holding her head and chanting “I am not from California, I am not from California…”)
AAAAAAAAAAACK!
Sounds like a serious grab for attention to me. Controversy sells, and this would be bound to pack the pews with ultra-liberal Catholics, not to mention pack the church coffers. Why does our society resort so constantly to shock for attention?
Chris wrote:Why does our society resort so constantly to shock for attention?
Because we’re numb. Several people, in responding to the violence of TPOTC noted Flannery O’Connor’s exhortation shout. Obviously, this is shouting about the wrong things, and towards the wrong ends.
But shock is necessary to get attention because we are numb. Numb from a zeitgeist that celebrates bad as good, sick as healthy, vice as virtue.
As such, “shock” per se is nothing new. Much of the great works of art historically were shocking to their contemporaries, who lamented that such awfully shocking things had to be created. But the shock today is more vulgar, because we are a vulgar people in a dying civilization.
Only solution is radical sanctity. And even that may not save Western Civ from itself. Of course, Christ didn’t promise to protect Western Civ, just his Body.