Duty to Renew the Church
Mae Daly, Saskatoon
Volume 27 Issue 7, 8 & 9 | Posted: September 1, 2013
I am writing to you because I have just read almost all of # 27 of summer 2013. Your paper has got to become a national one that Catholics across Canada can read. Every article in this issue is remarkable. Thank GOD for your excellent paper. As Bernard Daly’s widow, I can say that there is no comparison of the ICN with any other Catholic paper in Canada. You have the courage to speak for us who are fed up with the nonsense of the last two papacies. Thank God for you and for Pope Francis.
We are the Church, as Vatican II says, and it is time we speak as equal members of the universal church, equal in all things. I have seen with my own eyes, people actually kissing the hand of a young priest. He is no more special than anyone else, and it is time we stop honouring the priest as a special being. His vocation is as all vocations are – a call from God to be the best one can.
I am writing to you because I have just read almost all of # 27 of summer 2013. Your paper has got to become a national one that Catholics across Canada can read. Every article in this issue is remarkable. Thank GOD for your excellent paper. As Bernard Daly’s widow, I can say that there is no comparison of the ICN with any other Catholic paper in Canada. You have the courage to speak for us who are fed up with the nonsense of the last two papacies. Thank God for you and for Pope Francis.
We are the Church, as Vatican II says, and it is time we speak as equal members of the universal church, equal in all things. I have seen with my own eyes, people actually kissing the hand of a young priest. He is no more special than anyone else, and it is time we stop honouring the priest as a special being. His vocation is as all vocations are – a call from God to be the best one can.
People seem to have forgotten that Marriage is also a ‘vocation’ and just being the best one can be is what we are called to be. Whether it is as a teacher, preacher, student or house frau. As “church” we have to stop being passive and get active in renewing the Church – it is our DUTY!
Sorry for being so forceful, but I am fed up with the whole idea of people thinking that the way to be a ‘good’ Catholic, is to say the rosary on Sunday, and gossip on Monday!
Mae Daly, Saskatoon