In the course of using Catholic Twitter, there is a definite group of prodigals, people who have fallen away, who fall under the same category of suffering failure of the institutional Church thus causing a loss of Faith.
What is most distressing about this is that a number of these
people reached out for help and were rebuffed. In some cases, it was a failure
to get justice after abuse. Others had doubts and were told to get over it, or
snap out of it. Yet others were ignored. To add insult to injury, the adherents
of the movement itself were just as abusive.
None of that follows Christ’s words to, “Love one another as
I have loved you.”
Truthfully, what is lacking in the response from the clergy and
other Catholics involved is compassion. The prodigals’ needs were not met at
all by those they trusted to lead them in spiritual life or when they needed
support to remain in the Faith.
What is really eye opening, though, is the number of these
people who attend Traditional Latin Mass where the priests did not address
their needs.
We have heard for years how superior the TLM is to the Novus
Ordo, and yet, this is how the priests and others in the movement treat those
who are most in need of bolstering. They do not help, nor do they even move
toward the fatted calf when the prodigals approach.
If the reality was that there really is nowhere else to turn
for those who remain, such behavior would induce more defection. As it is, the
scandal is embarrassing enough for a lot of us.
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