[ArrogantBustard]

I just don't get it.

I don't get it either. My Faith only just survived my time in Norfolk. Oddly, though, my "reversion" experience came about halfway through that time, and with obvious end in sight. I emerged the rightwing, orthodox radical that y'all have come to know and loathe. I think that, if you don't know what the Mass is really all about, because you've never been taught, some of these clown-priests could be fairly entertaining. I've no idea how deep their Faith is. Their knowledge is extremely shallow, though.

[k omalley]

My faith just barely survived my time in the diocese of Richmond also. They told us in RCIA that it wasn't a sin to miss Mass, it just wasn't a good idea. I soon decided that my time was better spent doing something else and became an Easter and Christmas Catholic. When we moved to another diocese it shocked the socks off of me when I attended a dignified, reverent N.O., the priest said it was a sin to miss Mass and that artificial contraception was a sin. I can thank the diocese of Richmond for turning me into an orthodox Catholic, having experienced a real Am-church.