And kicks Mary Magdalene off the bus
The religious press is all aflutter about Archbishop Wuerl getting appointed Cardinal. Kind of like Jesus putting on a cap and gown and asking everyone for graduation presents.
Ambition comes with skeletons. For example, his team, on top of the failed gay persecution litigation has engaged in vicious heartless discrimination of another kind in persecution against at least one woman I know personally and likely others- particularly those surrounding one fine fellow who is a priest too adorable for his collar. I would marry him in a New York minute. In fact, I here propose on line. (and encourage him not to believe five seconds of the slander of anything I reputedly said that should cause him to have a second thought about it.) Honeymoon in Emitsburg.
They use attack dog women lawyers like all good corporate strategists fighting phantoms of paranoidly imagined harassment allegations against women dressing perhaps too provocatively and the like. Because we just can't have that- just be rude and ignorant enough and she will go away.
Get some church secretary who has a seventh grade education to start acting haughty nasty toward her and she will get disgusted soon enough and leave. Definately send the cops after that one with half a figure.
Don't get me started on the Pittsburgh skeletons- but doesn't the Pope have google? All he has to do is drive around Homestead and look at all the catholic churches for sale to satisfy settlements. Scandal- beautiful turn of the century churches filled with icons and beautiful stained glass. My nieces' baby's godmother's mother was bemoaning the fact that she grew up with all the women in her family cooking celebrations and feast day festivals in one church in Munhall that is now on the realtor's butcher block to the highest condo developer.
Would Jesus find Faith when he comes back? Would he find anyting resembling himself in his church? What gives with the red yarmulkas really.
The First shall be last and the last shall be first. Now who wants to get on that bus?
[I voted for Dolan but don't tell. ]
OH- and we need another Seminary here that everyone needs to fundraise for because there is just so much surplus money after the millions (literally millions) the Knights dropped up on the Shrine domes, the 12 or so million renovation to the Dominican House of Studies, the chronic please for funds from the Washington Theological Union and then there is Mt. Saint Marys and
something I don't even know about in Hagerstown. Because it's for all men anyway.
Men get scholarships and funding from the masses- women have to sell their jewelry to attend and can't get the same degrees.
Counter-cultural kvetching? You Betcha.
If you only read the Catholic Standard and the Parish Times you may not get a sense that one in eight houses is in some legal foreclosure state in the country, unemployment is in double digits and poverty indexes have shot through the roof and stabilized there. So we need to raise millions more for another seminary for all men to tell women that they are criminals if they fear not being able to feed their infants and have an abortion.
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