BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Mark Kohut]

TRP was raised a practicing Catholic...he was said by some friends at
Cornell to go to Mass regularly meaning every Sunday and more often...

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 1:38 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I was raised an Irish catholic,(quit at around  age 17-18) and have often
> worked for catholics in my conservation work. It seems to me to be a place
> of congeniality  and formal gathering, social moral obligation, but very
> little interpersonal interaction required to fit in unless you are in a
> service committees or education system. Much of the closer connections have
> nothing to do with religion and much to do with alcohol, football games,
> ethnic community events. TRP had some interest in catholicism despite a
> puritan leaning background.  I think his take on this makes good sense.
> Also closer alignments within the church at this time were often dangerous
> and secretive with the rise of liberation theology.
>
> > On 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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