Reply #19: I like it when we get traveling priests from 3rd world countries

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Who give their sermons on the poverty of their own countries and how we have a social obligation to help them.

What I don't like is when they come and explain that we're not conservative enough, that other religions are evil, and that we need to fall back to pre-Vatican II times.

It seems to me that traveling and immigrant priests have soooo much to offer us in terms of getting us to learn how the rest of the world lives. It seems so pointless to focus on the fact that we should go to Confession every week or pray 500 Hail Marys every day, etc.

I gotta admit that I do get nervous when they talk about the "Church's mission" in their poor countries. While I'm 100% on board if that means alleviating poverty and suffering and bringing human rights. I'm leery that it means, rather, destroying cultures and converting the Heathen - ideas that I hope are more in the past.

david