Take It For What It's Worth, But...

I did a random search of dissident "Catholic" websites (as their names popped into my mind) and looked through the pages of the following 10 groups:

- ARCC (Association for Rights of Catholics in the Church)
- Call to Action
- Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good
- Catholics United
- Dignity USA
- FutureChurch
- National Coalition of American Nuns
- Pax Christ USA
- Voice of the Faithful
- Women's Ordination Conference

(As an aside, you can do a Google search to find the websites for these groups. I have no desire to link to them personally.)

It occurred to me that ministries dedicated to promoting Catholic truth and spirituality would devote at least a portion of their site to messages relating to the Lenten or Easter seasons during the appropriate time of year. My search of the above 10 sites showed only one group (Dignity USA) contained a link to a message relating to the Easter season on their primary page. Catholics in Alliance had 2 posts on their blog that referenced Easter (though linked from the primary page, the link titles do not explicitly state that they are related to Easter), one of them quickly segueing into the "second most important event of the week," the start of the Major League Baseball season (the other essentially quoted a prayer from an ancient liturgical rite). Beyond that, my admittedly superficial search of these sites turned up no references to Lent or Easter. Instead, most of these sites - when not engaging in out-and-out criticism of the Church's hierarchy - focused on secular news and encouraging visitors to engage in politically-related activism.

As I mentioned above, take that for what you will. It just seems to me that any self-identified Catholic ministry would devote at least a portion of Easter Sunday to address the most important feast in the Church's liturgical calendar. God bless!


In Jesus and Mary,
Gerald