Two stories on Catholicism today:
(1) The Nutbar State strikes again. They say that Missouri and Illinois rank low in terms of mental health? Hell, ConnetiNUT must be in last place. The state is pondering a bill that would take the power of the purse away from the Priesthood and give to to committees of laypeople. While there is no official motivation, the conventional wisdom is that this is all over homosexual issues — marriage and adoption, among others. The state legislature for, the Catholic Church against. I also tend to think that there is a racial undercurrent — ConnectiNUT has a high Hispanic growth rate, and it’s not crazy to think that if lay parishioners (read: Hispanics, more and more) get control of the money, they can be relied on to divert it to Democrat campaign coffers.
(2) The St. Louis Archdiocese has no plans to close any Catholic schools in St. Louis City, which earns an “Amen” from Mayor Slay. Of course he thinks that’s good news, because the existence of an alternate (read: mostly white) parallel school system is an implicit selling point to trick white people with children or who want to have children to move back into the city. There are rumors among real estate professionals in St. Louis that, back in the heady days of renovation several years ago (which has all but come to a standstill), developers were throwing in free Catholic school tuition as a perk to potential buyers.
