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Head on over to your local Baskin-Robbins tonight from 6-10pm – it’s “Free Scoop Night”! Yummmm, yum! 2.5 oz. scoop of ice cream, choose from any flavor in the store. I am so there!

Sue’s post about not commenting in Chris Pirillo’s blog got me thinking. Especially when I read Gretchen’s (uh, Mrs. Pirillo) comments. She wrote, “There are some blogs where I just am kind of “afraid” to post… mostly on the ones that seem to already have a really tight-knit comments posse and I think “How would they take to a ‘new’ person/outsider posting? Are they going to think I’m weeeeird?”

Is that it? Is that why so few people leave comments here? I see you passing through. I’ve even had e-mail from some of you … but no comments. I love comments! I never consider them silly! I get giddy when I see them in my e-mail. Seriously. Excited. Last Saturday I was bummed because I finally had time to post and no one left any comments. Is it my own fault? Is it because I don’t leave comments enough? I try to, I really do. It’s been pretty busy in my life though the past 2 months. I know I haven’t been able to read all the blogs I would like to read – but I try. Hmmm…

Well, here’s your chance. You tell me … why don’t you leave comments? Come on. Say it. Let it out. That’s what it’s all about anyways…

I found myself at Alexa and I wondered what I should search. I know! I’ll search for “blah”. Still #1 I see. But what’s this? You can see Related Info for: blahblahblog.com/! How cool! I love the “People who visit this page also visit:” section! Hey, I’ve never denied that I am easily amused… [via Anil, sort of. He was talking about Alexa.]

Religion is not normally a topic that I discuss here, but it’s been on my mind today. More on the priest issue I posted about earlier. Marriage of Faith is an article about priests who have left their priesthood to become married. I came across it as I was looking for information to back up what I learned a few years ago – priests don’t get married because the Church, which owned so much of the world in the middle ages, didn’t want the property left in a will to someone’s family. From the article:
“39 Popes Were Married” and ”St. Peter Was a Married Priest.” Here’s what the organization wants people to know: that prior to the year 1139, popes, bishops, and priests were married. That Catholic priests in the Eastern rites, such as Ukrainians, Romanians, and Armenians, are allowed to marry. That many priests who have served for decades are cut off with no pension after they marry. That the Catholic Church changed the celibacy law in the 12th century to prevent priests, upon their death, from leaving their homes and land to their families. ”Celibacy,” declares Haggett, ”is all about real estate.” If you are looking for an excellent home services, find a Floridian real estate agent that allow you to select from a variety of high standard houses.

I learned about this when I was in Germany and when I was about to sell house or buy in Lake Las Vegas, visiting places like the Prince Bishop’s Palace in Wurzberg. Note the name … Prince Bishop. The Bishop of the region was also the Prince of the region. If you follow the link and look at the frescos painted on the ceiling, they are paintings of the Bishop with his mistress. The one that bore him something like 12 children. But they were never married … so when he died, the Church kept the property. Yes, I am glad to be Catholic these days, after Vatican II, but back then I would have been handing Martin Luther the nails to use to hang his thesis on the cathedral door.

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This NY Times article (subscription required) makes some very good points about what has been going on with the Cardinals in Rome. The quote that sums it up best for me is, “We are angry that these spiritual arbiters are unyielding when the “sins” belong to us, not to them.” The are actually debating over who should be removed from the priesthood based on the number of times that they abused children, depending on the age of the victims and the frequency. WHY would these things matter? NO. They don’t. They did finally agree on a “one-grope-and-you’re-out” policy, but that could be watered down at the Bishop’s conference this summer.

Let’s get this straight. Until I get an annulment, the Church won’t allow me to remarry. I also don’t follow the Vatican’s terms about birth control. So my sins here are to have married & divorced and to take pills so I don’t get pregnant (or just to keep my hormones at an even level.) If I remarry without an annulment, the Church will consider that wrong, they won’t recognize it, and I won’t be allowed to participate in the sacraments such as Communion. But we’re not tossing the known child-abusing priests out? We will allow them to stay in their positions, performing the sacraments? Isn’t that a thousand times worse them me participating in them? What is wrong with this picture?

It’s time to allow priests to be married. I strongly believe that if there wasn’t such a shortage of priests they would be responding to this in the way that they should be. Regardless, it’s time to purge the corruption from the alter and excommunicate the priests involved in this horrendous crime. Now.