Jeff writes, “Leave it to Fr. McBrien to actually write: ‘Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward.’” So, Jeff Miller accurately interprets what McBrien is stating: “Eucharistic Adoration is for stupid people, not thinking Catholics.”
As a priest, my first reaction to “McEgo” is this simple request: Would someone, please, boot this genius through the goal posts of Notre Shame?
Why is McBrien still teaching at Notre Shame? Enough of his heretical positions, arrogance, and exaggerated sense of his own importance! Enough of the hypocritical religiosity he parades on TV. As a matter of fact, the only time we ever see McBrien in a roman collar is when he gets paid by some TV news show to spew all the ultra-liberal, anti-Catholic things that the anti-Catholic media people curl up and purr over.
So, McBrien impugns that Eucharistic Adoration is for backward, stupid people. Stupid? Want to know who’s really, really stupid? How about:
The Apostles, Saint Ambrose, Saint Anselm, Saint Anastasia, Saint Anthony, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Athanasius, Saint Augustine, Saint Andrew Avellino, Saint Basil, Saint Benedict,Pope Benedict XVI, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Blessed Andre Bessette, Saint Bonaventure, Saint Boniface, Saint Bruno, Saint Catherine Of Alexandria, Saint Catherine Laboure, Saint Catherine Of Siena, Saint Charles Borromeo, Venerable Charles de Foucauld, Saint Charles Lwanga, Saint Chrysogonous, Saint Clare, Saint Columba, Saint Cyprian, Blessed Damien de Veuster, Saint Dominic, Saint Dominic Savio, Saint Edmund Campion, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Saint Ephrem, Saint Faustina, Saint Felicity, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Saint Francis Of Assisi, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Gerard Majella, Pope Saint Gregory The Great, Saint Helen, Saint Hilary Of Poitiers, Saint Hippolytus, Saint Hugh Of Lincoln, Saint Ignatius Of Antioch, Saint Ignatius Loyola, Saint Irenaeus, Saint Isaac Jogues, Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, Saint Jerome, Saint John Of The Cross, Saint John De Brebeuf, Saint John Eudes, Saint John Fisher, Saint John Neumann, Pope John Paul II, Saint Joseph Of Cupertino, Saint Juan Diego, Saint Juliana Of Norwich, Saint Justin Martyr, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Saint Katherine Drexel, Saint Lawrence, Pope Saint Leo The Great, Saint Leonard Of Port Maurice, Saint Louis IX, Saint Lucy, Blessed Margaret Of Castello, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Saint Maria Goretti, Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Saint Martin de Porres, Saint Martin Of Tours, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Saint Mel, Blessed Miguel Pro, Saint Nicholas Of Tolentino, Saint Pio Of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Saint Pancras, Saint Paschal Baylon, Saint Patrick, Saint Paul Of The Cross, Blessed Pedro de Alcantara, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Saint Philip Neri, Saint Polycarp Of Smyrna, Blessed Raymond Of Capua, Saint Raymond Of Pennafort, Saint Richard Reynolds, Saint Rita Of Cascia, Saint Robert Bellarmine, Saint Rose Of Lima, Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Saint Sarapion, Saint Sebastian, Saint Simeon The Stylite, Saint Simon Stock, Blessed Father Solanus Casey, Saint Sulpice II, Saint Terence Of Metz, Blessed Mother Teresa Of Calcutta, Saint Teresa Of Avila, Saint Therese Of Lisieux, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas Becket, Saint Thomas More, Blessed Thomas Reynolds, Saint Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Saint Urban, Saint Ursula, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Vincent Ferrer, Saint Virgilius, Saint William, Saint William Of Bourges, Blessed Yvette, Saint Zachary, Saint Zozimus.
And that’s not even a tenth of all the “stupid” and “backward” Catholics who love Eucharistic Adoration. If they are “stupid” then I want to become asinine!
