![]() I can send you my own little list to get you on the road I'd suggest having a heavy gold chain attached to the medal, with a picture of a millstone on the backside, and the passage about how it's better to have a millstone around your neck and be cast into the sea than to put stumbling blocks in the path of the little ones.Īnd as an aside, it's interesting that the very best and brightest-the ones who ended up getting the medals for excellence in the study of "the" faith-are the ones the bishops are most intent on disenfranchising as human persons, no? Perhaps you can find the most conspicuously double-speaking, double-dealing, slimy character in a cast full of them, and present him the award. Greg, what a perfect opportunity to begin a Bishop Begin Infamy award. As Kennedy says, "We have heard what the bishops say and we have seen what they do." Need we say more? He quotes his (Irish) aunt Margaret, who once wrote the producers of a soap opera to ask, "What do you take us for, damn fools?" ![]() As he says, their ultimate agenda is to have lay Catholics believe they have resolved the problem by playing a "do as I say, not as I do" game. It's by Eugene Kennedy, who opines that the bishops are engaged now in a none-too-subtle pas de deux with lay Catholics in an attempt to short-circuit the review process and prevent any further probing of the depths of the abuse crisis or its real causes. ![]() You and others in the thread will love, I think, the National Catholic Reporter op ed piece on today's SNAP website. And you're right: until it happens to you, you can be totally unaware of the process by which this is done to so many folks. MaryNH, loved your phrase "disenfranchised as a human person." That very precisely describes what too many of the "pastors" have done to survivors and others who dare to ask that the church tell the truth and shame the devil. Put her in a roomful of those malefactors, and I'm afraid not merely words would fly, but hanks of hair, as she yanked them out of the heads of bishops while repeating one of her favorite sayings, forever engraved in my brain: "Tell the truth and shame the devil!" Though her Irish-born mother had left the Catholic church since there was none near her in her rural community when the family moved from Ireland, my grandmother retained a proprietorial interest in "the" church (and a firm, if probably unfounded, belief she was somehow related to the Kennedys). ![]() If she were around today and in her prime, it would be Katy bar the door for many of the bishops, I fear. She loved to laugh, was quick to excuse faults (particularly in her family) though she could take the hide off family members with her tongue-something she permitted no one else to do. ![]() I wish many days I had mine still with me. 4Peace, glad my story brought your grandmother to mind. ![]()
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