• Not ‘High Church’ versus humility and service of the poor

Humility and service of the poor and sound Catholic teaching, reverently celebrated liturgy and glorious ceremonial are not opposed, but can and are intended to go hand in hand.  There’s a whole tradition in Anglo-Catholicism which makes that point very clearly indeed.

A couple of links to see:

• Slum Priests
• Alexander Mackonochie

Also see

• St. Clement Mary and the False Dicotomy of Justice and Worship

and

• This Is Not Catholic – the problem’s not the Pope, but the anti-Benedict bishops and bureaucracies who have been waiting for eight years to get their own back!