God bless you and yours as well. I enjoy reading your posts even if I end up disagreeing with you. Which I invariably do. But they’re carefully crafted, cogent and funny. I appreciate that and it’s something that I’m finding harder and harder to find in political discourse.
Frankly, I think we seek similar ends, just have vastly different ideas of the best way to get there.
I suspect it’s that inquisition thing. Eastern Catholics just don’t understand why you’d bother to have an inquisition unless, of course, it were to extract some really good pirogy recipes.
Aren't pierogis primarily associated with Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, all Latin Rite Catholic countries?
By Eastern Catholic, do you mean Eastern Rite Catholic or Eastern Orthodox?
As to "the inquisition thing," you may recall that Monty Python had a skit featuring men clothed in cardinalitial red suddenly appearing and saying triumphantly "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!" Well, in Poland and some other countries, it was even better. Not only did no one EXPECT the Polish Inquisition, no one even SUSPECTED its existence but it was very effective and Poland has given us a pope much more recently than has Spain. Any heretics in Poland disappeared without showy fanfare.
Originally, the Inquisition was created to deal with such heretics as the Cathars and the Waldensians. Even you have to admit that you have met few, if any, Cathars or Waldensians. For that, we may thank the saintly Fra Tomas and his associates and their equivalents in other countries.
The Dominican Lords of the Inquisition were employed by Ferdinand and Isabella to crush the Muslims LONG before crushing Muslims was cool. "The auto-da-fe is God's chosen way to purge sin from the land. Another soul to heaven (or wherever) from Torquemada's band!" (partial lyrics of the theme song of the TdTGS, sung to the tune of McNamara's Band).
The Spaniards probably also have pierogi but would not call them pierogis. Instead, they would have a Spanish name and be served by irresistible dark-eyed young beauties in sharp clothing with a dramatic flourish.
Oh, and thanks for the kind words.