The School Board in
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this is my pre editor draft of the catholic peice, its not as through as i'd like and it doesnt feature latin but hey

Catholicism is in crisis. Priests are dying and there are not enough young seminarians to replace them causing parishes to close, and the tasks of the church to be neglected. The Church is irrelevant to most of its members and they go for days of obligation if at all. If this crisis is not addressed the church may not die, but its strength will be sapped. To address these concerns, three things have to be done immediately. First lift the ban on female priests, second give ordinary Catholics (or the lay) more power and remind them of their obligations and lastly make the church transparent on all levels.
The most controversial of these three is the ordination of women. The Holy Father has forbidden the discussion of it. The problem is that the prohibition is not biblical. Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians talks about a Deaconess by the name of Phoebe. Before that there were woman in Christ’s life who did His work and who worshipped with Him. They buried Him and were the first to see him rise. Women act in all aspects of the Lords Supper except blessing. They are even altar servers, until very recently an all male calling. If we ordain women there would be more priests and priests who care about the life of the faith.
We can also prevent the exodus of priests by allowing the to encourage them to participate in the power they do have and give them more prominence. The Second Vatican Council changed the church to concentrate on the lay. The priest now faces the congregation when blessing the host, the mass is spoken in the vernacular, and they read at the pulpit and serve the Eucharist.
The problem is that there is a devout class that rises to fill these tasks, not a community. The tasks of the basic Christian (feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, mourning the dead, visiting the imprisoned) are left to the priest, not giving him time for the sacraments. The parish members who avoid these tasks are betraying the faith. To save the priesthood the lay will need to follow their obligations.
The last is transparency. The Vatican is ancient and large and beaurocracy comes naturally, which causes a split between the church at home and the Church of Rome. The Church of Rome is contained with in a hermetic bubble, with a tendency towards interior contradiction. For example speaking constantly about the importance of Ecumenism and then delivering an encyclical on the Superiority of Catholicism. There is also the censoring of Liberation Theologists. Five years after the pope did this he was talking about the power of the worker on the floor of Saint Peters.
To Change the church, to make it relevant and to stop the bleeding of Priests and parishioners is to prayerfully consider the implications of who we are. It is to fulfill the duties of faith and demand clear direction from Rome and our diocese. We need to agitate for change, because with out change, the damage done will be irreversible.

its nearing 4, and i am sober but tired.

i just finished writing about the catholic church and reading about iannana over mozza sticks at the local dennys.

on my way there an upper class even mix of whites and asians in suits poured out of a 4 star hotel drunk and jublient from a wedding

at denny themselves there were club kids in their slut clothes, a drag queen and her court, priest(s), a birthday (who celebrates their birthday at 4 am at a dennys ?), a man in a powder blue polyester suit, secuirty officers, cops, someone dealing dope in the shitter

walking back a man asked if i knew where he could get a little skirt in a tone of voice that suggested little meant age - there is a tandorri hut next door thats still open.

i write good first drafts in public places over greasy food.

Damian

jason from fearsome piratesent me this one line email : < br>
forgive him

and i was confused, until i read my blog and realized what i posted about my father

i have forgiven him, but have not told him that. does this mean i havent ?

i dont know what to think, but it does feel good to think people read this thing.

i have decided against continuing at the university of alberta. i did very well on my S.A.Ts and have applied to several schools in the states, i am going to the twin citices in december to follow up. i have also applied to calgary to take english, lethbridge for art history, simon fraser for film studies and brandon for education. i cannot deal with the game playing that infects the university. i cannot stomach the long knives disembowlling religious studies,film studies and interdiscpinary programs. kristin was supposed to get ahold of me re: smog and pitchfork and it aint happening, my peice for freaky trigger seems in dry dock. i had two assignments for the gateway i let drop and im feeling itensely depressed lately, like i should chuck it all and study a trade or something.

my father told me today he was a bad father. he was. what do i tell him.

sort of dont have a comp, using the uni machines or friends machines. have things due with pitchfork and gateway.

been working on a massive response to an 8 page goldbrath poem.

went to an lds wedding today. roast beef seems to be the theme. 6 people asked me when i will settle down with a nice girl dont eveb have a nice boy

forgot danielles url so if shes reading this- let me now

talked to daniel for an hour and a half about things, and he says he read this so i have to be more digilent on keeping my peeps informed.

interesting shit on pyschogeography.

i just went to blockbuster to see if they had any liz taylor movies . they had 8 copies of patch adams
they had no liz taylor movies.

larry rivers died last night.

nyt register, its free.

pamela de barres was running thru heathrow, trying to make an appointment. she had 3 plaster cocks in her bag, two well hidden one not. she was afraid of getting caught with obscene objects so sidelined into a washroom, stuffed one up her kegel strenghtened cunt and sailed thru customs

sea lions escaped from the prauge zoo due to flooding, just swam away.

I am preparing a paper for publication. It is a year long process and i am not even sure it will happen-but my classics prof thinks im good enough.

i have been feeling in the last few months like an adolescent. i am shedding my old life and painfully emerging into some thing else.
To prove my point, last night i had a wet dream. I didnt even have those when i was 14, though i havent wanked in a week and a half.

Oh and my classics prof got her doctorate on friday.

YEAH LISA.

I have spent 28 out of the last 36 hours at the folk fest, writing it up for the university paper.
There are 90 pages of notes written in my cryptic scrawl, some times with a bit of short hand thrown in for conveince. It's going to be a herculean task to sort out what of my writing is good, take my interviews and notes on the music and musing on the scene , but there will have to be a 500 word summary and it will happen.

i was hanging with my buddy at his record store and some one who i took a film class came in
and i hadnt seen this guy in months and i wrote some poetry about him
that was submitted to some queer or erotic journals
so we talked for half an hour and then he offered me a ride to class
and i constructed him as a fiction
and he wasnt

dirty

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