BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Mark Kohut]

I read this as having little or nothing to do with Catholicism. It is just
their religion in getting married. Windust is as rootless as the wind;
suddenly he finds a woman and gets married traditionally amidst all the
other cultures he is embedded in for his mysterious career?....All who come
are
strangers to each other or soon will be because none of them are connected
nor will they stay in touch.

It could be a way of suggesting/showing traditional Catholicism is little
or nothing against all the diversity now.

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 3:13 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [Windust] met, courted, and married—as his nameless biographers put it,
> “deployed into a spousal scenario with”—a very young local girl named
> Xiomara.
>  For a minute Maxine imagines a wedding sequence out in the jungle, with
> pyramids, native Mayan rituals, psychedelics. But no, instead it was in the
> sacristy at the local Catholic church, everyone there already or about to
> become strangers . . .
>
>
>
> I’m beguiled and stumped - “in the sacristy at the local Catholic church,
> everyone there already or about to become strangers…”
>
> Already or about to become strangers?
>
> Not being technically Catholic myself (though I think they claim
> everybody,) I sometimes wonder about  what I’m missing.
> At best I think of something like that Pink Floyd line, “calls the faithful
> to their knees, to hear the softly spoken magic spell”
>
> Related to that would the Windust nups be such a sacrilege as to estrange
> everyone there - and from whom? Each other? Themselves?
> https://youtu.be/b_-YfmyXlMo
>
>
> Or would the disjunctions perpetrated by the neoliberal fever dream cause
> the estrangement, despite Windust’s attempt to observe the forms, which in
> and of itself - wasn’t so evil?
>
> There’s a tenet that even a wicked priest can confer sacraments &
> blessings, right?
>
> But can an unholy recipient receive grace?
>
> Even I know there’s stipulations.
>
>
> Tangential or related -
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/06/09/4-men-convicted-in-murder-of-guatemalan-bishop/52d264b1-4d98-4df7-bb6a-edefce8441a5/
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