" Consider new church " ( letter USA TODAY )

            UNHOLY MOTHER Church ?

 In a letter to USA Today, reader Al Doyle advises demoralized

    Catholics- heartbroken over this pedophile scandal - to just LEAVE

    the  Church. Leave the now UNHOLY Mother Church ?

                  Knowing the Catholic mentality rather well - myself

    still respectfully on the fringe of this 2000 year old institution -

    I don't expect a mass exodus from the Church, with many Catholics

    becoming born-again Bible reading fundamentalists.

              For me the Pope still has more appeal than our TV evangelists.

    But when he passes away, I'll bet there will be CHAOS in the Church -

    a big crack in the Rock of Ages.

               I am no conservative in religion or politics. But I have

    deep feeling that Vatican II ruined the Catholic Church of my youth.

    The loss of the Latin mass was a loss of a vital mystique. And

    when I do attend mass now and then, I dread that hand-shaking

    nonsense. You can shake hands with any swindler on Wall St.

              And I never wanted  a priest to be a REGULAR guy. I

    wanted him to be - well Christ like !