Wanting to relocate somewhere in the Wichita Catholic diocese

[leighland]

Originally Posted by depressed in the midwest

This is just so distressing. Why would anyone consider a vocation when faith is becoming just one more consumer shopping trip.What are the "bad dioceses" because I would definitely like to avoid them?What is the criteria for a good diocese? Do I go to Raymond Arroyo to find out? Are the clergy measured by how well they match the consumer liberal or conservative constituency of the day?It's not enough to do liturgy and sacraments. We have to bury them in excessive devotions, and we expand Exposition from a solemn rite of prayer related to the Eucharistic liturgy into an all-night search to find warm bodies so we can preserve a perpetual exercise that is more about keeping company than prayer for the Church (with many exceptions to this, yes).If you try to catechize people on these issues--they want to reduce it to attitudes illuminated by FOX News, MSNBC, or some other Neanderthal simplistic forum devoid of intelligence and honest dialogue.It's just tiring. Does anybody out there get it????? I give up. ...Or maybe I'll move to Wichita. What have I got to lose?

You are not only very judgmental, you sound very bitter. What horrible event happened in your life that prayer became an extension of a political rallying cry for you?

Spend sometime in prayer, in front of the Blessed Sacrament (which you find 'just babysitting'). Maybe in those minutes you will find the thing you are missing in your life. Good Luck and God Bless.