Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Why this new-stuff-in-the-Spirit synod rhetoric, as seen in the USCCB tweet, is so damaging…

This new-stuff-in-the-Spirit talk annoys me. More than that, it raises my hackles and makes me suspicious. This is a feature, not a bug, of this Synod talk. It’s not a good thing, not because we want to be closed to the Spirit, but because the rhetoric diminishes our necessary engagement with the deep, Spirit-formed life of the Church as it’s been lived over the centuries…