I don't know why the Mother Angelica kind of Catholics are so vociferous. What is it they are protecting? To me it looks like a protecting of a set of rituals and religious observations.And they blame things on abortion and gays. Suddenly abortion and gays are something new? This is the cause of our modern problems? Just the same here is the Old Style Breviary for today.
Letting go of our fairy tales and adhering to our faith instead, that is the read problem for them. Faith is only what the magisterium says it is. In that way you are not challenged to wrestle with faith, you can just flip page 15 and there's the answer. There's your faith, all wrapped up in a set of answers without any other possibility.
Just because an easy answer is available does not mean that it is in truth, the right answer! God does not change, we change, so why is it that as we change (evolution, big bang, whatever) we blame that very advancement of human understanding on an attempt to abandon God (Who gave us our brains, and did not lay out the full blueprint of the Universe saying "here is it unto ye. This is how I did it.")
I am thankful for the Second Vatican Council, for it did shine light of Christ into a church where the hierarchy meant more than the holy people of Christ; where getting back at the French or the Protestants or the scientists was more important that anything else.
The church is made up of human beings and as such will always be imperfect. People always need something to argue about, and for Catholics it's liberal/conservative. I am liberal, and you go right ahead and be you.! If the love of Christ is central in our hearts, the rest does not matter.
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