Mysteries of modern life

[Michael Bailey]

I think that wing is called the Church Militant...

and like any militant wing - most notably and recently, those of the
civil rights movement, the labor movement and the antiwar movement -
they tend to take inappropriate and excessive action, appeal to
emotion over reason, propagate shibboleths, polarize the populace, and
muddy the waters for everyone else!

on the good side...well, there must be something...


I'm hugely more impressed by Garry Wills and Maryknoll and their
ilk....Vatican II, ecumenicalism, yay!
May God send their roots rain.



 Paul Mackin wrote:
>
> The p-list isn't big on electoral politics but one thing I'm always
> wondering about is where extreme right wing Republican would-be-candidates
> can possibly be coming from.
>
> One answer came in a fascinating front page story in this morning's Times.
> How many times do you run across a woman who (in later life) had a seven
> year affair with the obstetrician who delivered her, that doctor also being
> a prominent Pittsburgh abortion provider. Well, Karen Santorum did, and only
> gave up that love after meeting Rick Santorum--the rest being history.
> Rather miraculously she returned to her estranged family and their ancestral
> Catholic faith, and Rick experienced a big bolster to his lukewarm faith as
> well. And after not too much soul searching they found themselves joined up
> with the Ubers, a group Gary Will says are not Catholics but Papists, who
> seemingly get their marching orders direct from Rome. There's no shortage of
> such types around Washington, most famously an enclave of them in the
> upscale suburb of Great Falls, Virginia. They attend St. Catherine of Sienna
> Catholic Church where they can hear Mass in Latin. They send their kids to
> Opus Dei Schools, etc. etc. Justice Scalia is prominent among them.
>
>
> Strange and seemingly true. but can it possibly explain anything?
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/us/politics/from-nominal-catholic-to-clarion-of-faith.html?pagewanted=2&hp
>
> P



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