OK, these freaks would raise Cain if the Cardinal were to intrude one of THEIR meetings, but disrupt the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? Sure! Where we are to be our MOST humble, they can only think about their own “cause” and their own self-posturing. My choice of Current Music was not without forethought. I’m actually really glad this article did not try to make these schmucks out to be martyrs. For anyone who’s read The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, this makes me think of when Screwtape tells Wormwood to make sure that the Patient’s “faith” goes no deeper than “Christianity and the Cause.” Always Christianity and _____ (insert war, peace, whatever you want here,) where Christ and His word and preaching and His Church are only worth anything to the extent that they can be sacrificed on the altar of the Cause. Catholic Social Teaching is only worth something when it’s Iraq; turn to Roe vs. Wade, homosexual “marriage,” or anything like that, and all that nice rhetoric dries up QUICK.

I’d rant more, but I’ve homework.

NOTE: the above is cut-and-pasted from my Live Journal. Current Music was Plus One’s cover of “Here I Am to Worship.” I also note the cut-pastage in clase things don’t format right once I actually click Publish. I don’t have time at the moment to putz with it to make it look like it ought. Sorry!

Oh, and for anyone wondering, Notre Dame rejected me. Nothing more to say on that than that.