Catholic and Political Predictions For 2010

The always great Anchoress has a good many. See 2010 Predictions? – UPDATED

Let me just highlight a few of these:
Just in time for the 2010 election, the Illegal Immigration issue will heat up. A.N.S.W.E.R. will break out the Mexican flags and get the parades going, again, and many Americans on the right will become utterly inflamed again. The issue will be used to split and discourage the right, as it did in 2006, and then the flags will be packed away once more. Whether anything will ever actually be done to reform the INS is up for grabs, but I can predict with certainty that no one will take seriously my suggestion that a sort of “Ellis Island West” be created along the California/Arizona/New Mexico borders in order to help get peaceful, productive but undocumented workers onto the tax rolls, streamline the immigration process and enhance border security at the same time. I don’t know what to do about the Canadian border, though. Or Montauk. Good thing no one listens to me, anyway.

The Anchoress and I are the of the same mind on this issue. Yet I disagree a tad. I have huge doubts the Democrats would push another controversial and emotional issue like this right before 2010. Don't expect the Obama administration too really pus it either.

Lets recall it was Obama in a cynical political move voted to for a poison pill to kill immigration reform. Perhaps Hispanics and Latinos will realized they were snookered and should have voted for McCain. This is why I shake my head at progressives that are appalled Obama has abandoned them. Of course these same progressives I think thought the defeat of immigration issue was acceptable collateral damage for their bigger aims. How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot.

She has a lot more interesting political predictions check out the link. As to Catholic Stuff she says:

A surprising number of Catholics, not inclined toward Latin, but wearying of the Novus Ordo will be sampling Roman Catholic worship in the Anglican Rite and liking it, very much. Expect to see crossover movement between newly-received Anglicans and “cradle Catholics.


Catholic Liturgy itself will be in flux, both because of the Anglican Rite and because the new translations to the Novus Ordo will finally be released and put into liturgical use, amid cries of doom and gloom from the more “progressive” side of the church, which will see them as regressive, others will see them as a welcome correction, and people will adapt to them, as they managed to adapt twice after the Second Vatican Council.

The Liturgy of the Hours,, whether in long form, slightly shorter form or in its shortest form will continue to be embraced with enthusiasm among the Christian Laity, and will become even more popular. It must. It is too wonderful, and too instructive, and people of faith are going to need the comfort and discipline of the prayer.

She has others but these I think are right on. Strangely her post on the Liturgy of the Hours is very related to the Anglican predictions. Episcopals have a great tradition of using the hours in worship and have a much better tradition of actually using it that the average Catholic. So expect Morning and Evening Prayer to become more of a Catholic thing in peoples everyday life.

This is one reason so many of us Catholics are excited about the whole Anglican Catholic thing. In many ways what we can give them is just as important to what they give us English speaking Catholics that are not exactly Latin Mass types.

Good stuff