The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.