An Inside Look at Voice of the Faithful By Danny DeBruin.- As I pulled into the high school parking lot of the affluent Long Island suburb of Manhasset one July evening, I passed a BMW with a Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) window decal. Clearly, this was the place. I entered the building, passing a number of elderly people standing behind tables covered with pamphlets. Full story

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), January 09, 2004

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Bumping in progress!

-- The Bumper (bump@bumpetybump.bump), January 09, 2004.

Sad. I'm not sure about the numbers, but I think VOTF is pretty popular in my diocese, even among some members of our Knights of Columbus chapter (who are often themselves party to 60's sentiments as well as the patriotism that both KofC and VotF represent). Darn straight today's seminarians are "right-leaning"--right in their love of Christ expressed through fidelity to the Church. How can we be "nostalgic" about the old ways of the Church? We weren't alive back then. No, no, this goes deeper than shallow romance-- this goes straight to the Heart of the matter. The Sacred one. My energy for real Catholicism came to me kneeling before an image of the Crucified Lord. Incidentally, he is the center of the new faith--not nostalgia. Nostalgia has nothing to do with it. Nostalgia is dirt. Christ matters. And Christ is my reason for unity with the Holy See. Why? Because I have no other way to find him. I haven't found a back-door to Christ. There are no shortcuts. There isn't anything to replace the Pope or the Bishops. Feminism isn't my salvation; neither is liberation theology, structural reform, or even lay involvement.

The VotF embodies the exchange of gold for dross.

-- Skoo (anonymous@God.bless), January 13, 2004.