Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

It’s not just in America, and in Ireland, and in Canada, and in… well, you know, pretty much any other country you can think of. Catholic priests have been caught sexually molesting kids in Germany now too. Wouldn’t you know it? The Catholic Church lied about it. Covered it up. Who could have imagined such a thing?

The Catholic Church has already received a substantial concession from the Washington D.C. City Council in the struggle over legislation that would grant marriage equality to all residents, regardless of sexual orientation. In order to placate the Catholic church’s lobbyists, the Council placed exemptions for religious organizations. If the law passes, churches won’t be required to treat people equally. They’ll be allowed to continue their policies of hateful disregard.

Oh, but that’s not enough for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington D.C. The Archdiocese is now threatening to withhold services for poor people if marriage equality legislation becomes law.

The D.C. City Council has responded with a great deal more dignity than the Catholic Church seems able to muster. Council members say that if the Catholic Church wants to stop being charitable, then the City Council will simply step forward and make up the difference itself, but it will not allow any organization’s threats to interfere with the constitutional rights of the citizens of D.C.

As the remaining Roman Catholics in the United States wonder why their numbers are declining, they might want to take a look at the name of one of their organizations in Missouri:

Leadership Team of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O’Fallon

Just a thought, but perhaps a name such as this one does not communicate suggest that the Roman Catholic Church remains relevant and reliable very effectively.

Holy things are happening everywhere! Just as Irregular Times brings us news of an image of the Great Polar Bear Spirit that has appeared in the old split wood of a fence, News Buscuit tells us of another miracle.

Praise the Holy Roly Poly Polar Bear! An image of toast has appeared on a statue of the Virgin Mary!

This changes everything we thought about the Trinity. Now we can see that it isn’t about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. It has been now revealed through this set of divine visions that the true Trinity is formed from the Mother, the Bear, and the Holy Toast. This also changes the meaning of the parable of the creation of fishes and loaves by Jesus. The loaves obviously came from the Holy Toast, and the fishes came from the Great Polar Bear Spirit. Bears love to eat fish, if they can get it.

The crucial question now is this: Why didn’t the Virgin Mary give anything for the meal? Is there domestic discord in the Trinity?