For those who resist everything, glory

[rolanni]

Disclaimers: I am a recovering Roman Catholic. I grew up in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. I remember the Rochambeau Apartments, which somehow got to be an historic building while I wasn't looking. I remember, quite clearly, why I left the Church, and I feel, thirty years and more after the act, that my reasons are still good.

But, um -- wow.

This guy is so excommunicated.

Thanks to kinzel for bringing this to my attention.

Comments

To Err is Human...

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Holy JESUS!

You people didn't really expect our Church to be responsive to the needs of Her people, did you?

Having not yet fully recovered myself, from the strain of my Irish Catholic heritage, I can understand the confusion you must be suffering. Let me clarify: The Holy Roman Catholic Church answers to no-one on this, God's Green and Blue Earth. We have to wait our turn for judgement in the here after. Hopefully, those that handed out and taught the Baltimore Catecism #2 will also have to answer to the Almighty for their transgressions from it.

[mindslv.livejournal.com]

Actions like these make me a recovering catholic. Why put the money to use helping those that needed things like basic services or affordable housing when the cardinal's need of a wonderous view and a prayer garden was more pressing? Makes as much sense as many of the decisions of the modern catholic church.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm there in the recovering bin just like you for the same sort of reasons.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Recovering, yes.

Years ago, my folks visited a priest to discuss whether they could seek some sort of annulment of my dad's first marriage so that they could marry in the church. The priest told them 'you don't have any money, so you'll have to wait until (first wife) dies.'

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Being an atheist and all, I'm sure I have some weird preconceptions about religions, and the Catholic Church in particular, but stuff like this really makes me blink!

Sounds like a frat brother of the Archbishop in San Francisco, who closed one church (among a number of closures), and stated to the media that it wasn't that the church was expensive to operate (being fairly new and earthquake safe) but that it was more valuable to the Church as real estate to be sold, than to be used as a parish church. It boggles me that they don't even bother to attempt to spin their information.