Cellphone question and short answer:
A priest is mercifully granted sick leave, is now outside his order, he interacts with the faithful who are under no superior and no rule. They see he could use some means to communicate with them “in case of emergency.” These poor monks have nothing !
He says his superiors are too strict, his rule is oppressive, or even worse, that his order is with that nasty neo-SSPX ! I’m being forced to obey for the wrong reasons !
And besides, we travel too much, too many apostolates because of the crisis in the Church, that’s why I’m sick !
That’s very bad, Father, here we got you an I-phone, we got you an I-pad, we got you a laptop, you need to keep up with the blogs. Don’t worry we won’t tell your superiors. They’re the enemy.
Or a priest makes a sick call, the faithful show him their Internet.
Look Father, they’re talking about you !
The faithful corrupt the priest with their worldly spirit of social media.
He returns to his order but hides the worldly connections because the faithful are secretly paying for his accounts. Then he gets caught and punished. But he rebels and gets kicked out.
But now he is not a rebel but a martyr, the faithful now have a priest, their new hero ! A new independent chapel is born ! A religious priest is even better, they have that special religious spirit ! ( duh ! unless they lost it somewhere ! )
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