Albatrossity2
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| Quote (Annyday @ Feb. 13 2008,22:52) | | Quote | | The Activities Association said it is considering whether to take action against the private religious school. St. Mary's Academy, about 25 miles northwest of Topeka, is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, which follows older Roman Catholic laws. The society's world leader, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in the late 1980s. |
This is part of why everyone loved John Paul. For a Roman Catholic pope (I know, I know), he was pretty progressive. Or, at least, he kept the traditionalists at arm's length, which is something. |
For a while there was a guy in St. Marys, claiming to be Pope, who lived above an army surplus store owned by his parents there. The place is full of schismatic Catholic wackos. And it ain't even Avignon...
ETA (for FtK) - Is this religion-bashing? Is it useful to claim that religious doctrine forbids having a female referee at a boy's basketball game? Or is it possible that this is an example where doctrinal interpretations have become a bit extreme? Where does one draw the line between respect for the beliefs of others and pointing out that this is simply wacky?
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
- Pattiann Rogers
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