Cleveland Plain Dealer butchers the Church

[NeedImprovement]

I guess complaining about people saying, “Yes sir, yes sir,” is the closest they could get to a legitimate argument fo priestesses - then they’d be saying, “Yes ma’am, yes ma’am,” instead.

Speaking of priestesses, I tried to point out to my Episcopalian friend once that they have priestesses, but he insisted female priests aren’t priestesses. Go figure, lol.

…The further we think it through , the less viable it seems: What would we call them anyways ? “Father” ?.. “Mother” ? …neither one seems appropriate (not even “Fatherette”… wait… maybe "Aye Captain !?..).

NeedImprovement, is that because you’re not educated or because song-and-dance-Mess Catholics value knowledge more than they value Jesus?

That’s kinda mean I guess…but thoroughly tongue-in-cheek.

It’s because I’m slow :sad_yes:
I chose this user name for a reason. Proof…?..:

• It wasn’t until I’d been a member for 3 or 4 months that I realized there was a preview post button in the forum text window … and it was even later I realized that a link could be copied and pasted. Before that I’d be straining my eyes to the max trying to read and type links …*

You know, I’ve seen and prayed during the OF Mass celebrated properly and it is a very holy thing. But I also know where others are coming from and have seen first hand what they relate …what happens when everything takes a back seat to distractions.

Speaking of knowledge, it’s the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas today. You know, one of his contemporaries - St. Bonaventure had told him [paraphrase] " I’ve chosen to seek *Christ the lover *rather than Christ the teacher."

What I found interesting was that near the end of G.K.Chesterton’s book The Dumb Ox, he relates that after Aquinas had had a revelation where he told his confères, “I can’t write any more…I have seen things which make my writings look like so much straw…”, and when he was on his death bed, his confessor went in to hear Aquinas’ confession and directly afterwards came running out exclaiming “I’ve just heard the confession of a 5 year-old child!”

So Aquinas knew Christ the lover too and actually proved that the childlike heart and the theological mind can co-exist quite easily.

I can’t lay claim to either yet (so I guess my user name is safe for the time being )