Hitler's Pope//:: Joyce on confessions

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Hartwin Gebhardt schrieb:
> > I was writing about one person who happened to have a very 
> > powerful office 
> > and used it to ignoble ends.  This should in no way be taken 
> > as a criticism 
> > of the Roman Catholic Church, which has had some positive 
> > influence on the 
> > planet.  
>
> Really? But is that relevant? What would Lenny Bruce say about this? But I
> suppose you're right - I just can't think of anything positive right now.
> That's not to say that some of my best friends aren't catholic, or that
> they're not nice people despite being catholic....


 Wasn't it Joyce, who said that it doesn't make sense to give up an absurd but 
 coherent teaching like catholisism for an absurd and incoherent one like 
 protestantism?

  Kai (- a baptized Lutherist protestant who prays to the Virgin Mary every day)