Holy Cow Part 2

Please tell me that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops didn’t pull the rug out from under you.  Tell them to take me instead as I would be happy to take one for the team, you know, like a secret service agent, I’ll take the bullet for you.  They can put me through the ringer and I will even run the gauntlet.  Heck, they can rescind my baptism, 1st communion, confirmation and entire 1st - 8th Grade Catholic School education and diploma.  I’ll even take back all those 1,327 confessions if it will set you free. You and Jill are the President & 1st Catholic.  I’m just a wastrel of contaminated and expired holy water.  Please say it ain’t so Joe as, according to UPolitics.com, the USCCB has gone ahead and passed new guidelines that states, “Catholics who disagree with the Church’s position on abortion should not receive Holy Communion.”  Holy Cow!  That’s enough to piss the POPE!  I think the 1st order of business would be for The Vatican to court-martial those Bishops, take away their stripes and demote them to alter boys.  I was afraid that my April 29th article titled “Holy Cow” wasn’t going to be the end of it, so here we go again, another mixing of Church and State.

I wonder how many Catholics are going to turn in their “Holie Molie Memberships” over this new fiasco?  They are struggling with declining membership as it is and now this.  I keep forgetting though, that religious dictums do not need to abide by common sense and logic and go into areas that we layfolk are unable to comprehend.  I remember my 2nd year in 2nd grade when we were learning our catechism.  I started to pick up on stuff that I missed the 1st time around.  When you hear about “Supernatural Mysteries” for the 1st time, you simply accept it as catholic wisdom and move on, but when you hear the phrase a year later, something strange happens, you furrow your forehead and your brain kicks in which makes your mind scream out something like, “wait a minute!”  What do you mean by supernatural mystery?  It was verbiage that you simply accepted without question.  There may have been a classmate or two that understood, but the rest of us never caught on because we jumped right into the Holy Communion concept that a small wafer tablet is the body of Christ.  

Back then, the Catholic Faith believed that a child reached the age of reason at 7 years old.  When I was 7, all this sounded unreasonable and I was totally confused.  I am not into that stuff today, however, I am still easily confused.  It takes a whole lot of faith to get along with Catholicism.  I don’t have the wherewithal, but our President does and would like to continue to do so.  For the USCCB to ban me from Holy Communion would be inconsequential, but to ban our President, well, that would be a travesty.  Representative Ted Lieu (D) California went on a tear when he heard this as he called the USCCB a bunch of hypocrites.  He stated, “You did not tell Bill Barr, a Catholic, not to take communion when he expanded killing human beings with the death penalty.  You are being nakedly partisan and should be ashamed.  Another reason you are losing membership.”  I would give my eye teeth to be there at Mass with the President, if the USCCB finalizes the new guideline and actually refuses to give him Holy Communion.  Wouldn’t that be worth the price of a front seat ticket?  Stay tuned…..!


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