The last few weeks have been quite instructive. Let's be clear, I never asked expected this blog or my name to be on hundreds of blogs or conservative secular media. It seems though, in the main-stream Catholic media, I'm just a "discontented lazy rabble" blogger getting in the way. Yes, the people of the Catholic world are awakening "all because a few starry-eyed" bloggers "stir 'em up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!" The secular press in the United States, Breitbart and Renew America showed some more respect for the situation to say nothing of the hundreds of blogs in multiple languages around the world.
Since this situation began nearly three weeks ago, this "obscure" blog has had a twenty-fold increase in readers to say nothing of a climb of 9,000,000 in Alexa rankings. Since you're all here, welcome and know this, there won't be any joining of the "church of nice" so if you're easily offended, TTFN which is a polite and truly Canadian manner of speech rather than STFU, but then again, I'm not a boyzillian. George Bailey is more my model and we know what a wonderful life he had and that Clarence finally got his wings.
The little people, "this rabble," who do "most of the working and p[r]aying and living and dying" in the Church -- John and Mary Catholic with a keyboard and monitor (not a pen and a phone) are taking up the cause of Truth around the world. Whilst a keyboard and monitor do not a turn us into "bishops or liturgists" it does give us a voice far beyond Pottersville to fulfill our canonical rights and obligations. We are more than a collection plate, except in Germany where they have kirchensteuer and pornography businesses that would make Mr. Potter proud.
It is an interesting point that the mainstream Catholic press took a much different approach. It was gratifying to be called a “nut” in the combox at Crux; I was a little surprised by the fact that it was removed; considering the source I'd considered it a badge of honour. Crux seems to be nothing more than the non-liturgical version of Pray, Tell and Worship where it's all telling and little of the other two. Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture, when not begging for money on every article or to leave him a comment, refers to your writer as “hounding” a certain cleric - (oh, if he only knew the real truth) about that. Noted also is Kathy Schiffer in the National Catholic Register stating that “Indeed, Domet’s blog has been inflammatory. Domet opposes any discussion of change with regard to the family. He was an outspoken critic of last year’s synod on the family and has sounded an alarm in advance of the upcoming synod in fall 2015.”
Oh, and you're owned by EWTN? Mother, Mother look at what they've done with what you've built. Maybe you should have "blown it up" before you let them have it.
Any Catholic with an ounce of faith should have opposed “any discussion of change with regard to the family” at last October’s Extraordinary Synod. As for this writer and all the new friends made in the last three weeks out there sounding “the alarm in advance of the upcoming synod in the fall of 2015,” you can be absolutely certain, Miss Schiffer, that that is going to continue.
Inés, Phil and Kathy, next time, you want to know what an obscure blogger thinks, why don’t you actually get in touch to do a proper interview and check all the facts, or would that be expecting too much from a medium that has not come to grips with the fact that there is an alternative to those who have their bread buttered on both sides by ecclesiastics?
Oh, and one more thing, the Church and Catholics need these "measly" blogs "if only to have some place where people can come without crawling" to the main-stream Catholic media!