This Dan McLaughlin tweet has become indispensable to our family as we read the media's "reporting" on the upcoming conclave:
I want a car that runs on ignorance of Catholicism.If only. We could open up the Washington Post and fill 'er up at will: Left out of official Catholic conclave, these ladies play the pope game
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 11, 2013
This will give you the general idea:
She loves being Catholic. She was raised Catholic. She went to Catholic University. She and her partner, Ariana, were married by an ex-nun, and their toddler, Asher, was baptized in a Catholic church.Nothing personal, but Catholic women can't marry each other, not even when an ex-nun officiates. You can look it up, quite easily.
Now top off your tank with Monica Hesse's complete and utter misunderstanding of the nature of the Church:
Whoever the new pope is, he will have been selected by an electorate that is 100 percent male and 100 percent wrinkled. If it seems sacrilegious to reduce the selection of the new head of the Catholic Church to a game that appears to be entirely out of stock on Amazon.com — well, keep in mind that Graham’s living room is the only conclave to which the players have been invited. This night is about disenfranchisement, faith and board games.Disenfranchisement? Try to imagine the Blessed Virgin seething over being "disenfranchised" because she was neither a priest nor a pope. Or God, for that matter. Whether this ignorance is the result of laziness, bigotry, or just knee-jerk political correctness is anyone's guess. But if you're going to write about Catholicism maybe you should read a book or something first.
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Yes, but reading about facts is soooo boring. Didn't you know?
ReplyDeleteThere's actually a board-game called "Pick Your Pope"? I wish they would stop trying to bring the transcendental down to their petty level. I guess they didn't read enough fairy-tales when they were little.
ReplyDeleteWomen, the female of the human species, came from the side of Adam. God created Adam but took Eve from Adam's side. Without Adam there would be no woman. Without Adam, God might not have created Eve.
ReplyDeleteThey want "Cafeteria Catholism" where you get to pick the pieces of it you like and just leave the rest on the shelf. The same thing happened to all of the mainstream religions except they just bent to where the congregations wanted them to go rather than actually leading. I've never been Catholic but I respect the fact they've held firm to their true beliefs.
ReplyDeleteRobin H
On CNN's Outfront with Erin Burnett, her lead story the day the Pope resigned consisted of a panel with a former nun who left the Church after having had an affair with another nun and then a priest (she did not blame herself but the practice of celibacy)and a former priest who left the priesthood to get married (after having an affair. Again, apparently completely the fault of the Church) Simply salacious and scandalous. Then Burnett goes on to smile and say how she understands because was raised Catholic. UGH!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post.
Maria