go to their website and sign up<\/a>, while others are lamenting, \u201cI did and I never heard back from them\u201d and recounting stories of website glitches and stuff.<\/p>\nNothing says \u201cauthentically Catholic\u201d like an organization cocooned in administrative chaos and struggling with coding errors. \u00a0Just look at the Vatican website. Or the Vatican. \u00a0This is why dark conspiracy theories about an all-controlling Roman octopus of gleaming efficiency with a global reach just give me the giggles. \u00a0The Church can\u2019t organize its way out of a paper bag. \u00a0Hilaire Belloc was simply right when he said the Church was, \u201can institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a\u00a0fortnight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Never forget John 23\u2019s reply to the question \u201cHow many people work at the Vatican?\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout half.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catholics have always had a warm, easy-going Mediterranean approach to the Calvinist work ethic.<\/p>\n
As I have always said, I don\u2019t believe in organized religion. \u00a0I\u2019m a Catholic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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