I'm not really worried about excommunication, though if they take music away from me, it might amount to the same thing. At the moment, that's the only time I feel vaguely close to God these days, except for when I'm pissed off at Him. Sad, but there you are.
I'm a convert, and an amateur historian/ medievalist (how I got drawn to the Catholic Church in the first place), so I have a pretty decent grasp on canon law/ history, and a protestant's healthy skepticism about the holiness and infallibility of Ordained Ones, so that's a plus. One of the things that bugs me about the current Diocesan climate (and makes my reaction to all this more volatile) is that the bishop and a number of his Minions seem to want to revert worship to some 1950's ideal that never existed in reality anyway (or if it did, spawned all manner of evils because people who should have been paying attention were off living in some kind of religious fantasy world) and the handling of this situation is just another example. Thanks for pointing me to Matt. 18, though. And if my meeting with the Ordained One does not end satisfactorily, I think you know me well enough by now to know that a letter to the Bishop, or his superior if it comes to it, is something well within my capabilities. Watch this space. And thanks.
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I'm a convert, and an amateur historian/ medievalist (how I got drawn to the Catholic Church in the first place), so I have a pretty decent grasp on canon law/ history, and a protestant's healthy skepticism about the holiness and infallibility of Ordained Ones, so that's a plus. One of the things that bugs me about the current Diocesan climate (and makes my reaction to all this more volatile) is that the bishop and a number of his Minions seem to want to revert worship to some 1950's ideal that never existed in reality anyway (or if it did, spawned all manner of evils because people who should have been paying attention were off living in some kind of religious fantasy world) and the handling of this situation is just another example. Thanks for pointing me to Matt. 18, though. And if my meeting with the Ordained One does not end satisfactorily, I think you know me well enough by now to know that a letter to the Bishop, or his superior if it comes to it, is something well within my capabilities. Watch this space. And thanks.