Feminism and the pope.

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It seems the new Pope cannot keep his grip.  His public and highly publicized communications with the general public and the Church have been more than a little disturbing.  Most likely, he very much means them to be.  At a time when enrollment is down and Masses are being abandoned, priests are becoming difficult to find, and monasteries are closing, shuttering their doors, we have a genius who believes that further dislodging the faithful, disheartening the most faithful, is the way to go.  I wish him luck with that.  For me?  Unless he clarifies, strongly, powerfully, in the right direction, I won't disturb his new paradigm. 

Oh, I get the notion.  I understand, and always have, that the Church is the bride of Christ.  That, by definition, would make it at least feminine.  What is remiss is that the Church is a bride, and that a Man, Christ, is the LORD of the Church, and groom.  Each of those is a significant distinction from what the pope uttered.  If he wants to play pattycake with feminism, let him.  But he will do so without me.  I have a hard enough making it to Mass.  To be told I am not welcome doesn't help.

Odd.  The Catholic Church was winning.  Many conservative Anglicans, Episcopalians, and others were coming to the Church because of the obvious failure of those churches, only now to be greeted by the very humanist secularism that drove them out.  It does cause concern.  However my faith is untested.  It is simply becoming plainly clear that the Catholic Church may be surrendering it's role as the leader of that faith.  Slicing dogma, orthodoxy, cultural understandings, theology, and next probably the Eucharist itself thinner and thinner, while in a position to win and lead the rest of Christianity, is pure idiocy. But there we have it.  Hey, perhaps next he will suggest we have grape juice and cheese whiz on crackers?

I guess gilded ages lead to suicide, in many forms.  And from what I hear, it was American bishops who lead the charge for exactly this sort of pope.  So be it.  That gilding is already being worn thin to the bare beneath.  I hope they enjoy what they have sought.  I am done until the church is restored and the pope at least learns his place.

Might I be mistaken?  No.  Fix it or exclude men from Mass at your peril, sir!