Comments on: MAKING MORE CONNECTIONS https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/03/24/making-more-connections/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Jane https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/03/24/making-more-connections/#comment-82450 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:02:46 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=24994#comment-82450 Agreed. To be ignorant about ‘church jargon’ is to be ignorant about the church.

]]> By: Gregory https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/03/24/making-more-connections/#comment-81359 Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:55:59 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=24994#comment-81359 How good a job has been done at that “mediating” in the “local idiom”? Sounds noble. An obvious problem with this is that rather than making it “local” it locates the manufacturing of meaning with the credentialised conference expert, career Catholic, or cutting edge cleric . The desired goal of some local explosion of meaning as expressed above doesn’t happen, from my observation or most reasonable measures, because the striving to be relevant, a la mode, and hip is cringey and the new “translation” is inevitably destined to be fish ‘n’ chip wrapper as soon as it’s published.

Lastly, more demands need to be made to learn the Faith don’t you think? If the laity can master running a family, engineering, medicine, code, accounting, construction, and all the other pragmatic materialist procedural skills of life then we could be expected to condescend to understand a little bit of Church jargon.

” To simply take them from the web…” this is a revealing comment. It reveals that the cheap and rapid access of the laity to global information, video of liturgy, music, texts of Councils and Encyclicals, is hitting a sensitive spot because it puts the actions or inaction, disorganization or organization or of the local authority into context; even if the point about irregular ecclesiology is spot on.

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