[Mad Dawg]

It's the protestant schizophrenogenic double-bind: Either Catholics are yelled at for exercising control or we are yelled at for NOT exercising control. Is it your expectation that the Vatican act like the Chinese and have a large bureau of paranoid net surfers looking for heterodox websites?

Part of the problem is that over the millennia Catholics have learned to place our confidence in God. So our separated brethren, whose chief objection to the myths of the Inquisition is that THEY weren't in charge of the cigarette lighter and the charcoal lighter fluid, secretly WANT us to have the Vatican KGB breaking into homes of heterodox bloggers and disappearing them. That way they can enjoy thinking about how evil we are.

In the meantime, we kind of trust that if some of us are speaking the truth and most of us are living sacramental lives, things will settle out okay.

When I find I'm "damned if I do, and damned if I don't," I stop listening to the people doing the damning.

[wmfights]

It's the protestant schizophrenogenic double-bind: Either Catholics are yelled at for exercising control or we are yelled at for NOT exercising control.

I have to go, but will respond more later.

You're church and it's followers don't want accountability for what you do.

[Quix]

Hmmmmm . . .

Will have to ponder that a bit.

Thx.

BTW, I also received the

TEN SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY.

Am about 20 pages into it.

Regardless of the specific dogmatic, doctrinal content . . .

it’s a whole ‘nother world, universe, something.

Certainly a whole very different culture.