over at Oremus.
…the Tabernacle itself could only have been made by cutting down the hood of an El Camino, adorning it with slabs of molton glass and painting it with thick layers of encaustic.
Mind you this was after they actually found the tabernacle in a side chapel. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think we as Catholics should have to walk into a church a ask, “Where do you keep God around here?”
Mark Sullivan writes:
“Kettle of Fish.” This has a certain cultural resonance, carrying with it connotations of Friday fasts and mackerel-snapping, no?
Doug Sirman appreciates my comments, saying:
THANK YOU! Although I prefer “That Damned Mess!”, ‘crisis’ should do.
And Emily Stimpson agrees with me:
No argument here — and I don’t think you’re cranky. I stopped calling it The Situation awhile back. You’ll notice I now always refer to it as the crisis. Well, almost always.
Mike Shirley writes:
I think “crisis” works well, given that it combines “danger” and
“opportunity.”
“Kettle of Fish” doesn’t properly convey the gravity of it all. I wonder what Jesus is calling it.
Read this on Emily Stimpson’s site. She is so, so, so right.
The most important things that happen in Dallas, the things that God cares about the most, will not happen on TV. EWTN cannot show us the hearts of the bishops or of the victims who will attend the meeting. The television cameras won’t be present during the hours of quiet private prayer. We won’t hear the confessions these men make before God. We won’t see the rekindling of the Holy Spirit in their souls. We won’t know if one simple act of courtesy by a bishop will start the renewal of faith in the life of a victim.
Tell everyone about the Baptism this weekend, Alix!
I might add that the good people at Foxnews.com are calling it a scandal rather than a situation:
The scandal began enveloping the church after revelations that the Archdiocese of Boston had shuttled now-defrocked priest John Geoghan from parish to parish despite repeated allegations that he was a pedophile.
