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The Politicization of Ad Orientem, by Eric Sammons – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Politicization of Ad Orientem, by Eric Sammons

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[Image Credit: Sacred Heart Parish (Punta Gorda, FL) YouTube screenshot]

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 31, 2022

Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine. His most recent book Deadly Indifference (May 2021) examines the rise of religious indifference and how it has led the Church to lose her missionary zeal.

 

Last week I shared a video on social media that went viral (with more than 59,000 views at last count). What was this video? Was it a cat doing a cute trick? Or a Karen going crazy at an unmasked man? No, it was a boomer priest hamming it up for the camera and engaging in centering prayer and other abuses during his parish’s online Mass.

When I shared the video, I knew it would be controversial, although I didn’t think it would go that viral. Normally I don’t find helpful the “look at this terrible Novus Ordo Mass” videos that pop up periodically on social media, but this one is different. …