This is another reason why the Catholic Church won't win me back anytime soon:
Vatican Cracks Down on Liturgical Abuses
Roll down to the last paragraphs where it states the following:
"The gesture of exchanging the peace greeting should only be done 'to those who are nearest and in a sober manner.'"
WTF?! The best priests I know get down from their high places to greet their parishioners. This tells them: keep your distance. I choose not to stray far from where I stand, but hell if you want to say hi to somebody over three benches away, greet away... I mean, common sense should rule here and no matter how boisterous the peace greeting is, I have never seen a Mass run too long because of it. In fact, this is more or less the moment when I wake up after the Gospel...
This comes along in a new wave of micromanaging shit flung at us by all types of authorities: no low rise jeans in LA, no female piercing of genitals in GA, no gay marriages anywhere, radio shows off the air, five second taping delay, the absolute prohibition on television of "'shit', 'piss', 'fuck', 'cunt', 'asshole', and the phrases 'cock sucker', 'mother fucker', and 'ass hole', compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).'" Well, the land of the free is becoming the land of the prude. The down side is whatever happens in the U.S., it affects us here, no matter if we want it or not... I thought these people would have their times and hands full figuring out how to get more resources to soldiers in Iraq, where they are fucking dying because they are tired and nobody is eager to replace them. Soldiers have to stay put indefinitely because these political shits are too busy covering too many bases during election year, running military campaigns all over the place with few human resources. Decide: take a shit or get off the can, just don't sit there...
Vatican Cracks Down on Liturgical Abuses
Roll down to the last paragraphs where it states the following:
"The gesture of exchanging the peace greeting should only be done 'to those who are nearest and in a sober manner.'"
WTF?! The best priests I know get down from their high places to greet their parishioners. This tells them: keep your distance. I choose not to stray far from where I stand, but hell if you want to say hi to somebody over three benches away, greet away... I mean, common sense should rule here and no matter how boisterous the peace greeting is, I have never seen a Mass run too long because of it. In fact, this is more or less the moment when I wake up after the Gospel...
This comes along in a new wave of micromanaging shit flung at us by all types of authorities: no low rise jeans in LA, no female piercing of genitals in GA, no gay marriages anywhere, radio shows off the air, five second taping delay, the absolute prohibition on television of "'shit', 'piss', 'fuck', 'cunt', 'asshole', and the phrases 'cock sucker', 'mother fucker', and 'ass hole', compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).'" Well, the land of the free is becoming the land of the prude. The down side is whatever happens in the U.S., it affects us here, no matter if we want it or not... I thought these people would have their times and hands full figuring out how to get more resources to soldiers in Iraq, where they are fucking dying because they are tired and nobody is eager to replace them. Soldiers have to stay put indefinitely because these political shits are too busy covering too many bases during election year, running military campaigns all over the place with few human resources. Decide: take a shit or get off the can, just don't sit there...
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