Look at certian email homepages today; all abuzz that Qaeda's number two puke disapproves of Obama's first few months. Oh lordy, is DHS right NOW...criticize Obama or Dems or any official(s) ANYWHERE, and YOU are the radical suspect?

We all know China, Bush, Obama, and many others give bazillions of our and IMF money to Pakistan, the Taliban, and so on, while Qaeda obviosuly gets more guns, swords, cash and credit than any of us. But if one of their henchmen who "can't be caught, just hates Jesus, do as they say!" says HE "doesn't like" Obama, who wouldn't believe the ones Qaeda takes money out the mouths FROM aren't going to be "recruited" by them?

This kind of Qaedamontade is pure garbage, insofar as anyone who might try to get us to think complain about jobs, help the homeless, don't act as Office of Faith-Based Initiatives says, worry about mortgages/credit/schooling/healthcare quality, and DHS will coordinate a Federal down to local pounce on YOU...."radicals".

As everyone reading my Townhall blog knows, I've not been absent wilfully...i.e., in defiance of God...from my Roman Catholic Church since Easter; whenever I hear Presidential candidates, media, and assorted pols team up to label such Catholic ecclesia "Nazi, bitter, racist Crusaders", as PFAW mails a six-page letter re Bush and all Western faiths misspending millions in faith funds on the wrong people (?), I tend to jump out of Masses, especially where clergy are almost mum, the I stick with Vatican prayers and ephemera, watch EWTN, and really give issues a good shake as best I can...especially where some luminaries represent the Catechism and Canons to be worthless pieces of paper (as Catholics), meant to be makers of princes over us; some take the ad damnum into ALL Christianity for "failing" to acknowledge made-up Scripture re global warming, yet that's beside the point here.
 
To be sure, no other faith known to man gets pounded like my RC; a bazillionth of Priests molested somebody, so many say end that faith by any means; yet, a similar number of Muslims (small) have been terrorists, and nobody crusades against Lutheranism due to BTK killer being a Lutheran minister, e.g.; also, apparently BYZANTINE Catholic Canons somehow AREN'T avoidable...on and on it goes.
 
Some readers need to know that an Illinois State investigator was querying about me two days after I checked out a copy of the RC Catechism from the library, that being sole gist, prior to Benedict XVI in USA...I here so state.
 
As to the 2008 gang-up on Roman Catholicism to date, the upshot of much investigatory and political inquiry by me has shown it's all self-serving rodomontade, as if to promise there's a prize for folks if they get on the bandwagon...only don't ask what it is; any prize, IF any, appears to be in nature anticommunist/antisocialist Fulton Sheen then won't be canonized, or similar wind through fingers. In any case, no link to Vatican-faithful Catholicism and USA national security, Iraq, or economy drift has yet been shown.
 
Of course, some Cardinals and Bishops represent Benedict XVI is some "rouge" Pope, as if to say he's wrong about gays, wrong about opposing liberation theology of the Left, and wrong in the Eucharist and faith of the Catechism/Canons; which is odd, because as some clergy now grouse, pre-20005 so did Winnipeg Canada and other Bishops and Cardinals including against 1968 Humanae Vitae...yet Benedict XVI was elected by such grousers IN 2005. Theer is an air to this some clergy of rank fear losses to the faith, yet waffling on Benedict seems to undercut apostolic fruitfulness. As to Annual Appeal or anything else which can't be verified spent on even Catholic teaching the faith itself controls, I shall continue to withhold my pledge pending.
 
As to the clergy of my Parish, it has been satisafctorily established to me that they are what they represent to be; I cannot know if, at all, ala the tiny cadre of neckchain "Nametag Nazis" at my wife's Lutheran Church (did I mention they also photograph everyone at ALL Masses and functions, most never printed/posted?), my Parish lay committee members have outside interests coloring faith duties, membership rolls, and such...down to Monstrance unreadiness, listing my non-converted ELCA Lutheran wife and I as RC members first well after our absence and on heels of Obama's "bitter and clingy" opinion, and bulletin editing.
 
As to the attendees of various RC Masses at my Parish, nothing in their demeanor or speech indicates to me they are involved in more than worship in the traditional sense. On sight, they are about as "bitter and clingy" as Ward and June Cleaver, Edith Bunker, or Andy Taylor; they are adults, families, children, all ages...easily seen are Caucasians, African-Americans, Asians, and Hispanics together. While some may outwardly appear to stumble in "liturgical etiquette" at Masses, still, they truly desire worship of God, fellowship, and the Eucharist.
 
Wherefore, as my wife elects to keep attending her Lutheran Church (we were civilly married 20 years ago, no ministers thereafter to date) despite there lay committee malarkey, I too have concluded that there is absolutely no visible reason(s) to continue to worry soemthing is wrong with my Parish clergy or attending public, and as of yesterday I returned to their gathering. I would respectfully suggest anyone out there having doubts as I did, re clergy/faith, prudently research similarly, so that mere lay or political gossip or hype doesn't interfere with spirtual life.