TROUBLE AT EWTN

I used to watch the EWTN Catholic channel a lot.   I liked feisty old Mother Angelica.  Now she and the network she founded are charged with teaching heresy, naughty priest Father Corapi has apparently quit the prirsthood and become a biker and internet personality, "Black Sheepdog." Father Groeschel took himself off  and all hell breaks loose.I really liked Father Groeschel a lot. He understood  the real world.   I am not happy that he's in trouble for suggesting that  hormonally supercharged young people can seduce older men.  He's right.  How sad that he had to apologize and take himself off the air for speaking the truth.   I believe Mother Angelica is still with us, severely disabled by strokes.  I hope she is not aware of all the stuff going on.   And I'm not even Catholic.
Update:Corapi's internet presence has been taken down amidst speculation that he might go back to the priest   business or who knows what. Stay tuned for this fascinating saga of the sacred and profane. 
One more update.  Or question or whatever it is:  Is Scott Hahn still on  ? EWTN? Former militant anti-Catholic preacher, now militant Catholic.  Most memorable line:  "All Prots go to hell."   Who needs late night TV for entertainment.

TO HEAVEN OR HELL AND BACK

Going to heaven or hell and coming back to write a book about it is a big thing lately.  I  counted four of them in the book store, one written by a kid.  If  that happened to me and God told me to come back and tell my story, would I do it?  I guess I would.  Who am I to argue with God.   I will believe those books when it does happen to me. Pardon my cynicism, but I'd like to know how much of the money that's made from those books goes to good works.

MAKE ME HAPPY...PLEEZE

Know what would make me quite terribly happy?  If all those who loudly proclaim that organized religion in general and Christianity in particular is the cause of all the evil in the world would shut the hell up.  What a happy camper I would be.

The Pope's Butler

Too bad you can't copyright a title.  I'd slap my name on that one and sell it to Dan Brown for the name  of his next  book about Catholic skulduggery. Oh,  the Christian Church in its various forms and styles is taking a terrible kick in the head on the media these days. The Pope's butler gets canned, The Vatican's rife with corruption, Protestant mega-churches are going  belly up and I just read on Facebook, "I'm proud that I'm no longer a Christian."

Nutty Fundamentalists

If I must choose between living next door to a Christian Fundamentalist dedicated to saving my soul from the clutches of the devil and a Muslim Fundamentalist dedicated to blowing up infidels, I'll take the Christian.

Mega-churches folding, sold for mega-millions

I wonder what the Catholics will do with Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral.  And where did they get the mega-millions to pay for it.  A sad time for the Schuller Family.

No Church No More

A funny thing happened  on the way to church.  It came to me that I don't need to do that anymore. My liberal friends figure that I saw the light and have abandoned traditional organized religion because it gets in the way of spirituality. Wrong.  My friends over on the far  right side of the church aisle think the devil has got hold of me. They are wrong, too.  I got old.  Things change
I  thought I would probably die in church, nodding off during a meeting of the bored,. (That's not a typo) and forget to wake up,  being magically transported to  the heavenly realm where there are no committees, no boards, no meetings.