Re: questionable conception

djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in 
news:Jzsypv.Ius@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <Xns9A89AB921360Etaustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>>news:JzsxrG.HG4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>>
>>> In article <Xns9A8992BE79E43taustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>>>There's only one signature required. All others are completely 
>>>>irrelevant. The Catholic Church isn't a democracy.
>>> 
>>> That's what I said to myself when this lady came around with her
>>> petition.
>>
>>I have to wonder if you were that kind, in your thoughts.
> 
> Approximately.
> 
> You have to understand that some Catholics are really devoted to
> the Virgin.  And some aren't.  

I know a number of Catholics, and at least one CoE inmate, which is much 
the same thing. Your obsevations seem plausible.

> And I'm one of the latter.  I
> sometimes wonder whether a devotion to Mary has to be learned at
> one's own mother's knee -- and my mother had been raised a
> Presbyterian and was already an atheist when I was born.  She
> never quite forgave me for becoming a Catholic.  Well, this other
> lady was one of the former group, and I was not about to get into
> an argument with her about a topic so dear to her heart.
> 
Indeed. It's an argument you can't possibly win, and, much like the pig, 
she will probably enjoy it.

-- 
Terry Austin
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                                           - tussock

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