Though I Will Say….
....That it's no wonder there are so many gay Catholic priests.
The frocks are fabulous.
Funeral, Revisited
Well, I'm just back from the second funeral in three weeks, and there's a real sense of one extreme to the other. Last time round it was a deeply personal, non-religious event with cremation. This time - a full-scale Catholic do, with Mass and trip to the cemetary.
I'm sure it did good for the people who subsribe to it, but I found that all of my antagonism towards religion was only being fed. It all gets in the way of what should really be the focus. I don't think more than a quarter of the whole thing was actually about Mabel. The rest was about the church and about the religion. At one point, blessings were being asked for the entire Catholic church, starting at the Pope and working down, taking in the local Bishop and his assistants (each individually named), all the way down the the priest, deacon and regular congregation of the church itself.
But as I said, I'm sure it did something for the believers there, so I won't have quite the rant I could.