Sad Catholic school girls

 I know how a Catholic school -whatever the sins of the Church -

    can own your heart.  What a sad picture in the Boston Herald today ( page 14,

    Jan. 30 ) showing two Monsignor Ryan Memorial High School students, Alyson

    Wuschke and Jessica Hayes , who " try to hold back tears upon finding out

    that the school is closing its doors permanently at the end of the school

    year ".

               Can money be the measure of ALL things, even mental torment ?

    Is it really so insensitive to asks if the victims of sexual abuse  are

    OWED millions by a religious institution that is funded by its numerous

    faithful, humble Catholics who give whatever they can afford to THEIR

    Church - founded by Christ Himself, they believe ?

            Do the victims of sexual abuse have an unlimited claim on the

    Church's treasury ? Can the righteous demand for justice hide GREED ?

                Let me ask a very unholy question : Just who OWNS the

    Catholic Church anyway ? Perhaps the next pope might wisely  put a

    FOR SALE sign on all church properties and  withdraw the 2000 year old

    religious institution  completely from the  BUSINESS world. All the

    cash collected can be sent to a United Nations trust fund for the world's

    most desperate poor people.

              It is not inconceivable - considering the totalitarian political

    organization of  the Vatican state - that it could just collapse just as

    suddenly and dramatically as the old Soviet Union  - which was also OWNED

    by the FAITHFUL - by the working people, you know.

                  Like  Russia, the Catholic should return to its original

    " socialist " innocence - minus a privileged and dogmatic bureaucracy.

                A simple faith and mysticism might characterize a purified

    Catholic Church.  A belief in Jesus as God unaided by Aristotle and Thomas

    Aquinas. A humble faith in the Church's oldest rituals.

            And ancient Latin IS the language of the faith just as  modern

    Italian  IS the language of opera .

             Just keep the Vatican Library with its Secret Archives. And

    Catholics can begin again at the beginning.

                  Caution : True believers might again be fed to the lions !