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Every year since the early seventies, Catholics have gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center for the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Religious Education Congress (REC). Throughout the years, the congress has grown into what organizers dub “the nation’s largest annual gathering of Roman Catholics,” with an annual attendance of around 35,000.1
Whether or not it is the largest such gathering in the country, undeniably, the event is sizeable and should serve to clarify Church teaching, customs and practices in our age of misinformation, insecurity and doubt.
One would expect such clarification at an education congress, especially since the event is organized by the Los Angeles Archdiocese which was forced in 2013 to settle a sex-abuse lawsuit for $660 million. To date, this is the largest such payout in Church history.2
In spite of this need for clarification and reinforcement of traditional doctrine, the REC has long been known for promoting the opposite. Heterodox presenters and liturgical innovation, replete with sensual liturgical dancers, have come to be mainstays of the event.
Ask Archbishop Jose Gomez to Keep the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Catholic
Indeed, Christian Patin was not exaggerating when he concluded his first-hand report of last year’s REC saying:
The Religious Education Congress is nothing short of a disaster. With insolent, gay-affirmative priests crying for change, and liberal Ph.D.’s with a soapbox and a bone to pick, it’s no wonder why so many poor and miserable souls are confused about the Church and what she actually teaches. In RE-Congress-land, sin is nothing more than an unavoidable condition of man. To them, sex is an end in itself, gender is fluid and enigmatic, racism and intolerance are the only real mortal sins, love means “mind your own business,” God is only merciful, the Catechism is evil, Trent was an innovation, and the Church has no idea what she’s doing.3
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The following Creative Commons material was used: License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) Author: Welt Ende Title: Vatikan Rom St. Peters. - Feb. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIH6o...
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tfpla.org/about
Every year since the early seventies, Catholics have gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center for the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Religious Education Congress (REC). Throughout the years, the congress has grown into what organizers dub “the nation’s largest annual gathering of Roman Catholics,” with an annual attendance of around 35,000.1
Whether or not it is the largest such gathering in the country, undeniably, the event is sizeable and should serve to clarify Church teaching, customs and practices in our age of misinformation, insecurity and doubt.
One would expect such clarification at an education congress, especially since the event is organized by the Los Angeles Archdiocese which was forced in 2013 to settle a sex-abuse lawsuit for $660 million. To date, this is the largest such payout in Church history.2
In spite of this need for clarification and reinforcement of traditional doctrine, the REC has long been known for promoting the opposite. Heterodox presenters and liturgical innovation, replete with sensual liturgical dancers, have come to be mainstays of the event.
Ask Archbishop Jose Gomez to Keep the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Catholic
Indeed, Christian Patin was not exaggerating when he concluded his first-hand report of last year’s REC saying:
The Religious Education Congress is nothing short of a disaster. With insolent, gay-affirmative priests crying for change, and liberal Ph.D.’s with a soapbox and a bone to pick, it’s no wonder why so many poor and miserable souls are confused about the Church and what she actually teaches. In RE-Congress-land, sin is nothing more than an unavoidable condition of man. To them, sex is an end in itself, gender is fluid and enigmatic, racism and intolerance are the only real mortal sins, love means “mind your own business,” God is only merciful, the Catechism is evil, Trent was an innovation, and the Church has no idea what she’s doing.3
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The following Creative Commons material was used: License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) Author: Welt Ende Title: Vatikan Rom St. Peters. - Feb. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIH6o...
License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
