Just checkin' in...

Yeah, OK, so two thousand years later we actually bother to write something else. And it is a gripe.

What is it about all my mates in the other churches, that they decide to do something, anything, and it is all hands on deck, everyone buzzing round in a frenetic whirl of activity to get things done? They actually achieve things from time to time. It's like that idyllic scene in that Harrison Ford film, "Witness" when all the Amish people are working together in perfect harmony building the church. I have never experienced anything like that in the Catholic world. There is a handful of enthusiastic but overworked individuals trying to motivate everyone else but it is really like pulling teeth. And they seem to resent anyone but the privileged few trying to get anything off the ground. I reckon, per capita, that the Catholic population is the most lacklustre faith group in the world. At least today I do...

C.