fear and loathing in the church

December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining.

Events
963 - Leo VIII is elected Pope.
1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

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I remember one Russian priest wrote about the scarcity of candidates for 'matushki' in pre-Revolutionary Russia. What did these women fear?

Well, they knew things. They heard things.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I pulled this out of my old scrap book. A sob story about men who want to be priests who can't find wives. Good! I say. From this side of that proposal, I'd say that's divine intervention. Priests, once they are given a collar, have it apparently wired to the bark control or a very short leash. Attached to the other end is the bishop, usually a man with serious issues and only lip service to compassion, love and mercy. Trust me. The priest wives talk to each other. The priests talk to each other. Nothing more dysfunctional than church life when it is at its worse. And there's a real toxic pocket in America today!

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