[AlbionGirl]

This is all fine and good, I think sports can offer a lot to kids, but it does seem like they're living in some alternate universe.

It's hard for me to take this seriously. And most people will look upon this as concerning themselves with something less important than what they should be concerning themselves with.

It just makes them seem so out of touch. It's the Vatican PR equivalent of President Bush's SOTU steriod thing.

[sinkspur]

No, you come on. These people haven't a clue. They should be investigating why our youth is not being catechized. To hell with a sports department!

Would you have said that about Pius XII's birds, flying all over the Papal apartments? Lots of the commentary at the time implied Pius XII was goofy, and the birds indicated such.

UR, sometimes you seem so devoid of humanity I think "Ultima Ratio" is really a kiosk, spitting out anti-John Paul II propaganda on command.

Your stridency is approaching silly hysteria.

You're the one who looks totally out of touch, picking at every nit you can.

[Conservative til I die]

And most people will look upon this as concerning themselves with something less important than what they should be concerning themselves with

The Church doesn't care what public opinion says. And that's a good thing.

[ultima ratio]

It's especially bizarre when kids are being starved of the real faith and nobody seems much concerned. The decline in belief is totally ignored--deliberately ignored, I should say. What Rome apparently wants is to raise a generation ignorant of the faith--so that it may instill more modernist doctrines and replace two thousand years of inconvenient catechesis. If this isn't so--then why is it dithering with such nonsense instead of rolling-up its sleeves and preaching the Gospel?