CAT Tracks for November 28, 2011 FAITH

BLIND FAITH!

As I mentioned above, "I bought it!"

And, then, lo and behold...Vatican II rocked my world, challenged my faith, my blind faith.

Bottom line: When you preach to me in my formative years that eating meat on Friday earns you a permanent seat in Hell, then come along later and say "Oh, by the way"...well, it messes with the mind!

And...

...when this word comes from the top...the infalible word the Pope, God's representative on earth?!

But, but, but...

...the previous Pope(s) said!

Okay, okay...the fine print.

In my later years, my favorite nun tells me that my original nuns didn't do a good job of teaching, that they didn't clue me in...that the no-eating-meat-on-Fridays (or you go to Hell) rule was not really the word of God...or the Pope. That it was some church food-safety concern back in the days prior to refrigeration, prior to the Food and Drug Administration.

I still don't know "Why Friday?" I mean...is spoiled meat only dangerous on that one day of the week? And Lent? Enquiring minds would want to know, but, then again, MY nuns said that wasn't an option!

Is it getting warm in here, or is it just me?

Moving right along, hot-footin' it, so to speak...

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