Ah, Tweedle Dee comes in to echo Tweedle Dum. Right on cue.
Me, too. One year of Catholic High School and the teacher (a priest) spent an entire week showing us every sex ed film he could get his hands on. It was cool the first day, but we were more than done by Friday.
He should have totally taken this direction with it: Monday show a cool sex ed film. Tuesday, Weds, progressively less interesting. Thursday, downright dry and painfully dull human biology lesson.
At the end of the class, announce that you can opt out of Friday’s class and spend it outside, because it’s likely to be even less interesting and he knows you’re all bored with this stuff.
Friday. Lock the doors (no, you’re not coming in late). Show porn.
I’m not trying to step into the middle of a flame war but the RCC has a history of being hugely patriarchal. How many female priests are there? What is their position on birth control? It has embraced virgin worship which is entirely patriarchal. A woman that is not a virgin is less than the ideal. Why does the RCC insist that the mother of Jesus was a virgin? The RCC wants women to be chaste and modest but women have no say in the authority of the church. The recent attack on the nuns is very demonstrative of this attitude.
Talk to Catholic women who try to cling to their faith or women raised Catholic that have given up on the RCC. They are very offended by the patriarchy. Some try to cling to their faith but many have tuned out church authority. That is proven by the practice of birth control by women who identify as Catholic.
The RCC isn’t building new churches and schools while they continue to close them on a wholesale basis. Holy Week used to fill the Catholic churches, now they can’t get anybody to attend. When mom doesn’t go to church the rest of the family doesn’t either.
No investigation is needed. The organizations named are very public and open about what they do. Their services are already known, which is why the RCC began this investigation. They should have kept their mouths shut and let the parishes choose their own sponsors
That would have made more sense. There was no reason for any “investigation” because it is all out in the open and was not being hidden at all, and there was no reason for the heavy handed approach they came up with.
Well, not if you’re just going to put it on Flickr, they won’t. You gotta at least offer it on CafePress.
To the extent that the RCC perceives her communicants in political terms, I think she sees them more as subjects than as citizens.
Yeah, right after PETA starts hassling leather bikers instead of fur-wearing old ladies.