priests are boring & teens aren't invested in their faith, said no one who has ever been to a Saturday night at @go2steubenville #SteubieOTL pic.twitter.com/9wq03CYuGZ— KatiePrejean McGrady (@KatiePrejean) July 23, 2017
Some good people objected to these priests carrying on in this fashion. There has also been some discussion of this matter on facebook. Many of the comments there betray a lack of appreciation for the dignity of the priesthood - and these come from faithful Catholics no doubt. I'll post some of them below so you can get a flavor of them. Below that I'll post some of the twitter conversation.
A little update - Since I started this post, I issued a few reply tweets to that video. That apparently was enough for Katie Prejean McGrady (original tweeter) to block me from her twitter page. Therefore I can only see it from here.
In looking back to see what I wrote on these matters at other times, I was reminded of this post that I wrote two months ago. That is a post in which I address the lack of esteem that even good Catholics seem to have for dignified adulthood and the futility of emotion-based evangelism. Many of them really do believe that young people won't pay attention to the truth unless priests disregard their own sacerdotal orders. I'm also linking to another post that I wrote: while that post's topic isn't really germane to the topic of this post, the second paragraph has an analogy regarding "spiritual poison". I've no doubt that many good things do occur at that conference. However, this video teaches young people, and all ages for that matter, that emotions and "feelings" should take precedence over intellect, reason and will. After the jump break I'll put up some of the facebook comments and why I believe they are emblematic of the mindsets that see such juvenile behavior as actually desirable.
