sacraments instead of spinning: conversion to the Catholic Church in Germany A rousing, readable
products by Hannah Meier back in the FAZ the Catholic Church in Germany. Please look at it. Will only a certain (to me central) aspect of my superfluous Mustard make:
Whether intended or not: Behind Meier manages to make a thousand little ugly pictures a kind of etching by the promise of happiness of conversion, of a redemption (not only) for the discouraged in faith - in the true, holy, catholic and apostolic.
How does he do it? The tool and also the subject of the journalist is yes (unfortunately and thankfully) the rhetoric of contemporary public (not everyday!) Language. The article is written in a language with a kind of semantics of the faint-hearted as a fundamental issue with it, and at this level is so discouraged myself as part of the picture that she draws. This means: If He as written in English - and what is always forgotten, but the real point is - so for an Anglo-Saxon culture
with very different standards of value *, he would have a positive, yes, cautiously optimistic about the future of the church and its anything but shaky Leave legs.
sacraments instead of spinning Behind Meier's report is only one provincial beneficial in the sense that the "world" of which he writes, only the small world of Catholicism in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is not at all the big wide world where the problems of the Germans with "their" church will not be understood or are still divided. Why not sacraments instead of spinning? The first time must be explained and understood. And second, the report also
is written in this microcosm, a product of the specific (and in turn, provincial) zeitgeist, but which - mutatis mutandis - refers to the spirit of the time, in the sense
Kentenich . More specifically refers back Meier - ex negative - on the solution of the (partially self-inflicted written) discouragement: the belief in the Catholic doctrine to accept, confident and of course, without crooked Gekasper with "trees and boats" in the sacrament celebrations and the whole "African Affairs, Buddhism and Hartz IV "idiocy in religious education. From the cramped strangely troubled zeitgeist writes out behind Meier is approaching thanks to a solid journalistic hand to the solution. As says the priest, originally from Cameroon Ngah:
"German Catholics two hours to report on the error of their bishop, but that Ave Maria 'they can not. But after the show they thank when I spoke in a sermon on faith. "
Reminds me of my survey, those who pray the rosary. What? The rosary?
with Bricolage to conversion So there is not only a solution to the alleged problem. A solution the yes - even picture book! - Just a "missionary", a Cameroon-born priest does. Little wonder that this seems to ever have an objective voice of ... the other I get at least strange and unnecessarily cumbersome before brooding. Is there really "thought about" (!?), during the lunch break for city people to offer the Holy Mass? Here in Sydney I can practice at any hour in the Holy Mass in the CBD, and find myself with hundreds of young suit and costume winners of all colors and cultures at a show again, the event is not yet want to be. But a Eucharistic celebration. Why all the cramp? What is there to think please. Just do it ... like Rev. Zuhlsdorf writes so well: make the red, the black talk. Basta.
What might at first sight not so obvious is that behind Meier's performance is excellent, as journalism, even in a medium such as the FAZ, is biased as a "field" or "function" in the public and social space, and as a craft anyway poorly placed to ascribe to approach such problems. This borders on self-description of the blind spot. According to an article is - at best indirectly refer to positions and values that may recognize the spirit of the age itself is not, or can allow - as a child of the Zeitgeist. In the same way as if you tinker a beautiful picture of thousands of small ugly. With
Bricolage to conversion.
nice that there is something to read besides the hate rhetoric antikatholischem botched education Pharisees such as in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other "left-liberal" media.
------------------------------------- (*) Just compare me, how much the traditional "Anglosphere" (and pretty much all of humanity) than Germany at the
map of "Cultural Values".
