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He says nothing new. In 1977, my father was given "advice" by the parish priest that children old enough to stay home alone should not be forced to go to Mass if they didn't "feel" like it.
This is the kind of crap the local N.O. priest says.
They have this idea of a hippie Jesus who's cool with everything you want to do.
Yes, it is annoying as all get-out to have a bunch of huffing and puffing and eye rolling from people, oddly enough not the teenagers, they should still assist at mass. You never know when God will deliver His graces, so why go out of your way to deprive yourself of being in the presence of Christ?
But I guess this newfangled Catholicism is just about going to mass whenever you want to and singing "Jesus is just alright with me" for the recessional. :guitar: