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Jesus believed that power was only truly useful if it was given away. The papal ceremony of giving the red hats to the elite club of cardinals displays the great legacy of Jesus and King Arthur.
Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as equals, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't.
I won't say that Catholics need to lighten up or learn to take a joke, because my last piece wasn't intended to be light-hearted or funny. It was satire, meaning... well, you can look that up.
Rick Santorum appeared on ABC's This Week apparently to demonstrate once and for all that he cannot be elected the next President of the United States and that soon after November he will slip into obscurity.
Instead of giving something up for Lent, do something positive: Be kind.
It is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the USCCB has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital or university.
"There were numerous times throughout history, I thought, 'Now is the time.' But after watching the complete debacle that is the GOP race, and reveling in the hypocrisy, lies, and downright evil being committed, I realized, this stuff is far better than anything we have going on down in Hell."
The reversal of viewpoints on the role of religion in politics points to the danger of calling into question the existence of a wall of separation between church and state.
Appearing on ABC's This Week, Rick Santorum elaborated on his statement that watching John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association made him want to "throw up."
I'm sure that, like their Republican Party counterparts, few of the men who testified before the committee would object to the notion that Church and State must be firmly separated from each other.
As things stand today, Obama's not running against the Republican Party. He's running against our fears, and the Republican Party has just been going along for the ride.
For all their howling about intrusive government, the Republicans who control the great Commonwealth of Virginia want to legislate the most intrusive procedure a woman can imagine.
Unlike Christians, Santorum and his fellow Roman Catholics participate in a barbaric ritual dating back two millennia, in which followers then line up to eat Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax.
Here are his words: "We look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it."
Although I'd never put a nickel in his collection basket, I almost like Timothy Dolan sometimes. And that's the point.
Religion may no longer be the opiate of the people, but it is certainly the father -- not the mother -- of all political wedge issues.
