Beth and Traci: The Church’s Ovaries
There we were, back in the saddle or more accurately back in a basement church room with a bunch of earnest Christ-loving broads but in this case a portrait of the pope. Two hours of Why Catholic?—“a unique adult faith formation process solidly based on Sacred Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and updated to include citations from the newly published United States Catholic Catechism for Adults.” The group leader told us that “the program is book-driven, but we don’t use the book very much.” Renegades. Cool. I can relate: This one time, in high school, I totally missed curfew so I could finish watching My Fair Lady with my friend’s mom. True story. And if God didn’t want me to stay out till midnight, he shouldn’t have made Audrey Hepburn so enchanting as Eliza Doolittle.
Back to the basement room: The elements I’ve grown accustomed to were there, like the “us against the secular world” line of chatter, which from where I’m sitting with the cohorts in my teeny minority sounds dubious at best, and speaking of dubious, has anybody else heard that Karl Rove is an agnostic? Not that I want to claim him, but the irony of his nonbelief adds a new layer of evil to his program of Christian manipulation, does it not? Hypocrisy, I mean, just so we’re clear.
