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I ended up agreeing to do readings in Church and they made sure I always had the nice short readings, although one day he deliberately left the wrong page open - I think it was because I was having one of my teenage angry stroppy moments and it was his way of making me smile.
He also caught me sighing with releif after my first reading and made a joke about it whenever he could. But it was never mean or nasty, he understood my sense of humour well and could always make me grin.
I miss him a lot, even as an agnostic.
12/26/08
I wouldn't be a nun in Boston, but I would totally be a priest.
12/26/08
The asshole in my school was a male, married religion teacher. He was an intolerant misogynistic ass, and when I had to do the confirmation I thought I had the parish priest as the teacher... but they switched my sections at the last minute.
He made my confirmation meaningless.
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Oh, by the way: Your teacher has died of Dyssentary.
12/26/08
A few of my favorite nuns:
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[www.adultandchild.org]
[barangayrp.wordpress.com]
[www.freedommag.org]
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She was a great old lady, who died 2 weeks later. It was a privilege to see her again
RIP Sister Jo.
12/26/08
Surreal was the only way to describe it, as she looked so unlike her living self.
I'm sure my parents struggled with whether I was old enough to attend. (My siblings, all younger, didn't attend, if I recall correctly.)
My parents are disappointed to this day that they couldn't afford to put us all through Catholic Schools, but I'm glad they did not. They did put my sister in them briefly during a rough patch of hers, but quickly yanked her out when they realized she was being taught the curriculum we had been taught 3 years earlier in our excellent public schools.
Realizing we had one of 'those priests' also got my brother yanked from altar boy practice. Once my mom learned the priest had been moved from parish to parish to parish with no explanation, she was on that shit. She never explained it to us, but she knew that we didn't generally have itinerant priests in the RC church. Someday I will have to ask her how she 'knew' and why she 'knew'.
I'll stop now as I am rambling.
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I recall my brother coming home from an altar boy outing and vomiting. Right before my mom pulled him from the altar boy duty, or around the same time. Maybe he was invited to the outing in the hopes he would return-I can't recall.
But my mom said the same thing that I had been thinking: when the scandals broke, she immediately wondered if that priest was one of 'those priests' and hopes she got my brother out in time. As do I.
Cesybabe, yeah. There have been huge mistakes and abuses. But there have also been many good priests and nuns who have benefited people. Touchy subject, for sure.
12/27/08
Depends. In many dioceses in the US, it's pretty typical to rotate the young priests every 2 to 3 years; you don't stay put until you have some seniority. (And, depending on parish needs, maybe not even then.)
But yeah, good on your mom's intuition.
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