71%. Yeah, pretty danged close. Although I didn't care for the options on the women priests question. I don't think women shouldn't be priests because Jesus only chose male apostles, and I don't think it's necessarily inevitable. But I went with the latter anyway.
You are a neo-traditionalist Catholic Vatican II was just fine, as far as you're concerned--but you wish church liberals would stop pushing for still more changes. Your favorite hymn is "Gift of Finest Wheat," your favorite pope is John Paul II, and you think Mel Gibson makes some good points about religion and family.
Sheesh, Chris, why don't you go someplace and, like, speak Latin or build communion rails or something.
Interestingly, while you may be philosophically in line, I think to be a traditionalist you'd need to do the first Friday thing, pray the rosary regularly, light candles for the dead, and other things that my "History of US Catholicism" class referred to as "devotional catholicism."
I think there is a great deal to be taken from that practice--but at the same time, there are aspects of that period better left to history.
I am finding myself sympathetic to the idea of more Latin in masses. Okay, mainly, I'm tired of the "contemporary worship music" or whatever the hell it's called. I wouldn't mind a church atmosphere that was more devotional, more... otherworldly, almost. I think good heavy Latin hymns would do the trick.
I remember being surprised the first time I heard someone suggest that the Church had made a definitive mistake moving to the vulgate. The someone: Joseph Campbell, who said that every religion needs its sacred language.
And surprising to no one...I'm firmly in the liberal camp with Neal. 63. Although I think I might have ended up slightly more on the neo-traditionalist side if I didn't object to how some of the answers were phrased.
It posted me at 60, but I had problems with a lot of the questions. Take the music question, for example. Why wasn't there an "all of the above" category (asks the musician)? I put contemporary folk, but I love the Latin. (Also, there's a difference between, say Marty Haugen and Bernadette Farrell, and the childish stylings of Carey Landry.) Or the altar server question, where was the "where can I sign up"? category?
I do not think that test really worked for me, since I often found myself wondering which answer actually applied, since I agreed with none of them.
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Vatican II was just fine, as far as you're concerned--but you wish church liberals would stop pushing for still more changes. Your favorite hymn is "Gift of Finest Wheat," your favorite pope is John Paul II, and you think Mel Gibson makes some good points about religion and family.
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Interestingly, while you may be philosophically in line, I think to be a traditionalist you'd need to do the first Friday thing, pray the rosary regularly, light candles for the dead, and other things that my "History of US Catholicism" class referred to as "devotional catholicism."
I think there is a great deal to be taken from that practice--but at the same time, there are aspects of that period better left to history.
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I remember being surprised the first time I heard someone suggest that the Church had made a definitive mistake moving to the vulgate. The someone: Joseph Campbell, who said that every religion needs its sacred language.
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I do not think that test really worked for me, since I often found myself wondering which answer actually applied, since I agreed with none of them.
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