tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1691304597516574517..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Welcome to Chicago, Archbishop. Keep an eye on the soup...Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76439154730018371922014-11-18T10:12:37.260-06:002014-11-18T10:12:37.260-06:00The voluble Jerry B's nod to the priests and n...The voluble Jerry B's nod to the priests and nuns who taught him puts one in mind of the back handed compliment Evelyn Waugh, a 20th Century master of the form, bestowed on Catholic education: "Ever since the Jesuits stopped defrocking priests for pederasty you can't get good proofreading."Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20459954644365702212014-11-18T08:41:43.512-06:002014-11-18T08:41:43.512-06:00Had to look up the poisoned soup reference: the pi...Had to look up the poisoned soup reference: the picture it conjured of some hundred dignitaries puking their guts out was well worth the trouble. Maybe we need an anarchist or two these days to put the fear of the soup into our worthies.<br /><br />Johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06215684866966011198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3369076156102315842014-11-18T01:20:50.379-06:002014-11-18T01:20:50.379-06:00I am a non-devout cafeteria Catholic . I went to C...I am a non-devout cafeteria Catholic . I went to Catholic grammar and high schools and received a superb education from self-sacrificing nuns and brothers. It will probably be another 100 years before the Roman Catholic Church recovers its moral authority lost through its handling of the pedophile debacle.<br /><br />I have always sought to learn from other religions. From Zen Buddhism I learned a sense of living in the present and a certain aesthetic for doing so. Judaism appears to have a richer sense of the husband/wife relationship. Richer in the sense of being less abstract than Catholic teaching.<br /><br />Catholicism use to have the best churches and the best music until it switched over to kumbayah guitar masses.<br /><br />But there is one key difference between the Protestants and the Catholics. In a Protestant church you will see a cross symbolizing the risen ascendant Christ. In a Catholic church you will see the crucifix – a miserable wretch hanging from a wooden cross.<br /><br />That is the God voluntarily stripping himself of his divinity to suffer a wretched death. “The word was made flesh and he dwelt among us.” In modern times this was epitomized by Pope John-Paul II performing his ministry hunched, crippled, and drooling. Cardinal George is near the same point in his life and handling matters in a similar fashion.<br /><br />For me Roman Catholicism makes the most sense on the killing fields and in the death wards.<br />JerryBnoreply@blogger.com