As a Catholic in a very Catholic city where every Catholic Church basement or hall has a bar complete with tappers that say “Budweiser”, “Bud Light”, “Michelob” and now “Bud Select” I’ve always wondered what the big deal about drinking is. What’s presented in this article is the way things were in the parish where I grew up and, frankly, still is the way it is. I guess it’s a cultural thing.
Curiously enough, when the left took over parishes, one of the first things they stamped out was drinking at parish events. I remember one parish that I lived in where the Holy Name Society was told they could no longer sell acohol or raffle baskets of “beverages” at parish events...by some limp-wristed young leftist twit wearing a Guatemalan stole. The reaction was severe, but he won. Many of them actually ended up drifting away from the Church because it had suddenly been taken over by the Puritan left.
Its in honor of St. Budweiser who turned beer into water.
It’s kind of the English way too, don’t you think? It’s the Public House approach. You don’t think of it as being a situation where people get drunk and break pool sticks over each others heads. You wouldn’t do that in church! Or if Father’s at the bar.