"Check Please!"
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U.S. Roman Catholic Church's credit card statement:
--Child abuse settlements and judgments: $1 billion since 1950.
--Wrecked childhoods: priceless.
--Lost membership: priceless.
--Inability to recruit clergy: priceless
--Lost credibility: priceless.
--Lost influence in the Vatican: priceless.
--Crises of faith: priceless.
Somewhere along the line,
Well you know it's just a matter of time.
When the fun falls through
And the rent comes due,
Somewhere along the line.
--Billy Joel, "Somewhere Along the Line"
POST SCRIPT: Meanwhile, the man who fiddled while everywhere except Rome burned is on the express train to sainthood. Go figure.
--Child abuse settlements and judgments: $1 billion since 1950.
--Wrecked childhoods: priceless.
--Lost membership: priceless.
--Inability to recruit clergy: priceless
--Lost credibility: priceless.
--Lost influence in the Vatican: priceless.
--Crises of faith: priceless.
Somewhere along the line,
Well you know it's just a matter of time.
When the fun falls through
And the rent comes due,
Somewhere along the line.
--Billy Joel, "Somewhere Along the Line"
POST SCRIPT: Meanwhile, the man who fiddled while everywhere except Rome burned is on the express train to sainthood. Go figure.
Posted by KipEsquire on
10 June 2005
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