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Change comes from the bottom up.

I served on my children’s school commission and worked to improve and better the parish school.

I did parish food drives, filled w shoping carts full of thanksgiving meals inlcuding 4-5 huge turkeys every year that I worked at the local grocery store by soliciting fellow employees to donate the turkeys the company gave us each year.

I helped start the endowment for the parish primary school so we could eventually offer free tuiton (fingers crossed the next decade it comes true.)

I co-chaired multiple school auctions that raised more than a half a million dollars for the parish school.

In short....I have doing the Church’s work in deeds.

All through the last 20 yrs while the parish priest has been promoting every leftist agenda politically.

I don’t mean promoting the church doing its work. I mean he promoted leftist government programs like man made global warming and everything else Obama would be promoting as well as preaching contrary to church doctrine.

I continued to support the parish and its mission, as Christ would want me to do despite the human failings of the man assigned to serve the needs of our parish.

I was able to do this because I knew the leader of the church was doing the Lord’s work and following/promiting the doctrines.

Now I am faced with the pope doing exactly what my parish priest was doing....Rev Jeremiah Wright minus the cursing.

You keep saying none of my money goes to Rome...so what.

I am going to starve the local parish of my energy and money and if enough people do the same change will come from the bottom up.

When local parishes cannot pay the nut on their property loans, when they cannot pay staff and have to lay off people, when that happens the dioscesan leaders will pressure upwards and change will happen.

Or I could be wrong