NEWARK, N.J. — Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, a former Roman Catholic altar boy who resigned from office last year after acknowledging a gay affair, says he now attends Episcopal services. [full story]
Because now it’s ok to be an active homosexual and be a member of the Episcopal church.
My question: what does being an altar boy have to do with it?
U.S. Catholic activits to march on Guantanamo prison
HAVANA, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A group of [lefty, granola-eating] Catholic peace activists [who are stuck in the 1960’s], defying a U.S. travel ban to Cuba, will set out on Wednesday from the [atheistic] Communist island on a 50-mile (80.5-km) trek [in their Birckenstocks] to the U.S. Guantanamo Navel [SIC] Base aiming to protest conditions for [totally innocent] terrorism suspects.
My colleague at St. Marks, Dick Weiand, who has been an organist and bell choir director there for over 3 decades has had a recurrence of liver cancer. His health is growing much worse. I’d like to give him a spiritual bouquet, please let me know what prayers & sacrifices you can offer in the comment boxes below.
Thanks and God bless you all.
As I type, two legs of lamb are marinating at Panjshir’s, my town’s Afghan restaurant. We’ll pick them up tomorrow and let them flavor through until roasting on thurday.
Who needs a Turducken when you can have an exotic Thanksgiving!
I’ll report with the results later this week.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
News report from the latest Bishop’s conference:
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago noted that a long-standing division between bishops who prefer standard American English and those who want a literal rending of Latin has become more complex. Some bishops on both sides have realized that the current English text is more familiar and meaningful to many Catholics than the centuries-old Latin text once was, he said.
“There are those who have been quite critical of the present translation, but who are now saying that we don’t want to disturb the people, especially in the situation of weakened episcopal authority we have now,” he said, referring to distrust of bishops who failed to remove child molesters from the priesthood.
Two points:
It’s amazing that Cardinal George believes some Bishops don’t want to upset the apple cart because, gee – the people think we are jackasses for how we handled priests guilty of sexual misconduct. We’ll need a generation to pass before we can act decisively on moral and disciplinary issues.
Can you actually weaken authority that has been given by God? Only if you presume to weaken it yourself.
Second issue: I’m all in favor or reviewing the banal English translations we’ve been given for something that is more meaningful, even if that takes some time to stick.
More later when I have time…
