Posted on 05/10/2002 5:02:14 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
To all those out there with a grudge against the Church, especially to the media, let me say this. I want you to attack the Church with everything you have. I want you to expose every skeleton, in every closet, of every Bishop, Priest, and Brother or Sister you can find. I want you to probe and penetrate, search and investigate, inquire and interrogate. Leave no stone unturned. Bring your experts on television, tell us your opinion, make your predictions. Tell us in the strongest terms you can just how weak, how immoral, how stupid, cruel, cold and callous the leaders of the Catholic Church really are. I only ask that you tell the truth. Tell just enough truth, in just the right way, to make life in the Church appear solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Keep pointing your finger and cry “bad, bad, bad” until you run out of breath. I want you to use all your influence, howsoever much it might be, to persuade as many minds as you can that the Church is full of hypocrites, liars, cowards. Try to prove that all of us must finally come to agree with you that the Church is really nothing special. I even want you to talk with Catholic theologians who will agree with you, and demand that the Church must change. Change, change, change! Let us hear how out of touch with reality the leadership is, let us hear how snotty, how arrogant, how aloof they are, how blah, blah, blah… I want you to keep asking why the Church has not hired any P.R. firms to help maintain it’s image and credibility. Then I want you to turn around and blame the Bishops for only caring for the Church’s image and credibility. Keep making these sorts of observations…please, I urge you. Do not hold back. Your chains have been unloosed for a short while. Give us your best shot.
Oh how I relish these days! So many people at once thinking about the Catholic Church.
You also made the claim that you did your part today by helping out at special olympics (funny, you capitalized Special Olympics but not Christ...oh well)
After you have a thousand years of establishing hospitals and soup kitchens and orphanages and schools around the globe come talk to me about who has and has not shared its resources.
If you do not like art that pays tribute to my religion's founder and followers then don't look at it.
Conservative people don't tell others how to spend their money.
If you are Catholic then whine all you want about how your own Church spends the money. Since you are not (by the language of your posts) then stop telling my Church what it should do with its art.
You just plain stink you old fart.
Alas, I was educated by mere Ursulines and Josephites.
What kind of education did you have to produce such a sentence as this?
But don't stink of christ.
There's no hidden Christ behind the Christ by the way.
He did not hide himself from any of us..
I'm sorry you think he did.
Nighty night.
patent
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