Father Longenecker on Father James Martin SJ

I ran across a blog post from Father Longenecker about an twitter post by Fr James Martin SJ, on the NewAdvent.org home page.  He incorporates the twitter post within his blog post.

Fr Martin is championing an article published by America  the magazine of the Jesuit Order.  Fr Martin writes:

It is stupefying to me that women cannot preach at Mass.

It is apparent that Fr Martin suffers from a common post Vatican II disorder. 

Beginning around the middle of the 1970s many in the Church stopped talking about or acknowledging the Apostolic Succession.  For decades I never heard anyone, lay or clergy, who taught in the Church speak of the Apostolic Succession.  It was as though the Church had forgotten her own story, and her members and teachers had become protestants.

Have any of them ever read Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church published by the second Vatican Council? ( see link )

In the late 1990s or early 2000s my parish began having a nun give a homily once a month (they told us it was a 'reflection' not a homily).  I spoke against this practice to my pastor to no avail.

She actively undermined the Apostolic Succession, preaching that we are all Shepherds, and thus minimizing the significance of the distinction between laity and the ordained.

This is and has been a serious problem within the church.  It has been coupled to "the development of doctrine" and leads to people telling you "we're just ahead of the church. "  "What we say is what the Church will believe in 300 years."

Bad news for the Church.

Shame on Fr James Martin.

You should read Fr Longenecker's Article.