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To: Coleus
I've found two dozen eggs next to our Tabernacle one Sunday during mass and my pastor had to contend with dead white chickens placed in brown paper bags strategically placed along the outside perimeter of our church building. I could only imagine what they do in Haiti, Mexico and elsewhere.

At the risk of rekindling the unpleasantness from last weekend, I wish to point out that this is the type of thing that has long been accepted in folk Catholicism without near the criticism from Catholic intellectuals that Biblical literalism receives.

Guess I just picked the wrong ancestors!

27 posted on 03/10/2006 2:04:01 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Timcheh 'et-zeikher `Amaleq mitachat HaShamayim; lo' tishkach!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Give it a rest.


28 posted on 03/10/2006 2:10:36 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Actually, it was long criticized and suppressed, sometimes even very firmly (witness the Inquisition). However, after Vatican II, many leftists got into positions of power in the Church and started encouraging "native" practices. The left is the biggest reason that voodoo and various bizarre African-influenced cults have flourished in Latin America. I think our current pope is not going to be as tolerant as his predecessor.


30 posted on 03/10/2006 2:25:41 PM PST by livius
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