'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
They want to destroy progressive Catholicism. Period.
How's that working out for them? Not being snarky, just wondering if they're picking up more conservative catholics or something. People who were like, "You know, my religion is not currently oppressing me enough. I'll take a look at that fresh new catholic Church! I hear they're really getting their oppression on!"
I sent FB message to my BF and her husband today about something really trivial. Then my BF & I chatted back on the same thread and gave her a long account of how miserable and stressed I was at work. Only then did I figure that her DH is copied on all those messages. It's not a big deal, we are really good friends and I know she tells him everything anyway. It's does feel a little awkward...she's one of the few people who I really feel free to talk about my innermost thoughts with and it feels a bit like I gave myself away.
Another lesson about reply all.
This latest news from Rome gives me the visual of a beringed hand squeezing a fistful of sand harder and harder as all the grains slip out between the fingers.
Poor noodle mac, msbelle.
Conservative Catholicism seems to be popular in much of the African and Asian continents at the moment. I wonder if the Church is taking the view that they are willing to lose some parts of the world to gain others that are larger in population - with the gain in power allowing long term recovery here as well. Of course Africa and Asia have long progressive traditions even reactionaries are in power through large parts (not all) of both continents at the moment. So if that is the plan (and I'm not saying it is) it sort of depends on a very specific political path.
Conservative Catholicism seems to be popular in much of the African and Asian continents at the moment
Most of the current growth in the Mormon Church is in those areas, too. They've nearly written off Europe, but that's still considered a plum mission assignment. Few people pointing guns at you, like in the American South, few chances of simply disappearing off the face of the earth. Plus cool sightseeing.
No word from ita, by the way?
ita's still lying low, Dana.
Okay, thanks.