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The inability of so many Catholics to reimagine the institution during this pandemic, or even to see the pandemic and its disruption of business as usual as a kairotic moment inviting such reimagination:
It's astonishing, and a real indictment of US Catholicism. /1
It's astonishing, and a real indictment of US Catholicism. /1
The mentality of justifying lavish government handouts to keep doing business as usual rather than to welcome the opportunity to re-envisage institutional structures and how they carry out business: what does this say about the eschatological imagination of US Catholics? /2
It's as if they imagine that entirely mutable, historically developed structures were somehow cemented into place by Jesus himself, who never even envisaged at church as he proclaimed the coming reign of God. /3
All the money raked in from the government during the pandemic to keep the church doing just what it has always done, and the claim that the decision to take that money is good and holy because the church always does good and holy things with money: what stunted moral thinking./4
