For the past two years and some change, you have been faithful participants in stumbling over the stardust of this blog, and I am grateful for your consistent companionship. Most of you have read the 121 issues, and your interest has created the kind of synergy a writer needs to keep up the pace. Even so, there comes a time when the best laid plans of mice and old ministers just need to take a break. This good old summertime seems like just the occasion for such laziness on both our parts. When you’ve sailed your boat through many waters, […]
No More Communion for You!
All of this hullabaloo about withholding communion from the President until he yields to the pressure of Catholic bishops on the abortion issue reminds me of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi. Throw in Galileo’s house arrest for daring to question the authority of the church’s five thousand year old flat earth or Martin Luther’s heresy trials for questioning indulgences, and you have the makings for the most imperfect tempest in a teapot. And don’t forget how the church and the empire started a mutual back-scratching thing during Constantine’s time or when Henry VIII needed a handy divorce so he became the head […]