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Sunday, 1 July 2007

CINOs

I was appalled when I first started to loiter in the blogosphere at what I saw as intolerance, the insistence by some Catholics that some other Catholics were CATHOLICSINNAMEONLY, (CINOs, for short.)
But in time, I came to be more outraged at the beliefs of people who continue to call themselves Catholic when all evidence points to the contrary.
An example:
On RPI Forum, a board for (mostly) Catholic (mostly) music directors, one came up with this support of the Trautman School of Inaccurate Translation -- message #35167, http://www.rpinet.com/wforum/index.php?t=msg&th=2933&prevloaded=1&rid=0&S=093706a88650748ed480f78b3abca684&start=40
Progressives do not want the "accurate" translations for they, IMO, show Jesus as a hateful God

So essentially this purported Catholic, in a position of some authority, with some ability to actually influence the way Liturgy is conducted "in the field", as it were, thinks the actual texts of the Mass show Jesus as hateful, and so it is necessary to mistranslate them.

Another poster in the same place, who claims to be a teacher in her parish, objects to her new pastor seemingly on the grounds that he is too learned (knows several languages,) that he follows the rubrics (oh, the horror!,) and worst of all, that he is "Roman." (Not ethnically, as far as I can tell, just in loyalty.)

No Roman Catholics need apply, we want priests from the Jersey Catholic Church, or the Bostonian Catholic Church, or maybe even the Sicilian Catholic Church, anywhere but the Roman one.

CINOs was too sadly apt a descriptor.

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