{"id":1777,"date":"2010-04-10T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:02:04","slug":"mischke-on-the-catholic-church-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2010\/04\/10\/mischke-on-the-catholic-church-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischke on the Catholic Church Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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T. D. Mischke - Photo by Michael Crouser\/The Atlantic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tommy Mischke<\/a> is a Minnesota legend and a treasure, though you\u2019ve probably not heard of him if you\u2019re not from here.\u00a0 He\u2019s a singer-songwriter<\/a>, but he\u2019s mainly known as a long-time radio host, known for weird gags, drunk callers, and long periods of silence.\u00a0 Rumor has it that he may be returning to Twin Cities radio<\/a> (and on a clear channel station, so that many of you around the country will be able to hear him from 10-midnight Central Time on 830 AM \u2014 plus, of course, online).<\/p>\n

Recently, Mischke has also been penning a column for the Twin Cities alt weekly, City Pages<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 In this week\u2019s installment, he writes about growing up Catholic, and how he saw even then the origins of what would become the present pedophilia scandal:<\/p>\n

As a grade-school kid, the Jesus I was taught to embrace was unlike any adult I\u2019d ever encountered. He was dirt poor, humble, and a bit shabby in appearance. He hung out with the poor, the sick, the outcasts, and pariahs, but he didn\u2019t lament their company. I didn\u2019t know a single adult like him in my parish.<\/p>\n

The Jesus the nuns taught me to cherish did something no adult I knew could pull off with conviction: He didn\u2019t lecture the sinners or avoid them, but embraced them with breathtaking compassion. He seemed to genuinely treasure them, without judgment. As a child it was the most startling thing I\u2019d ever encountered.<\/p>\n

Too bad they had to temper it by shifting my attention to Rome.<\/p>\n

To this day I remain stunned the church doesn\u2019t see what even a young boy could see the first time he was given the chance. A church that holds up a poor carpenter\u2019s kid as its ideal presents a leader who, symbolically anyway, seems to emulate the Roman emperors instead.<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t the church find it incongruent that the world of the Vatican is so royal and opulent? Everything about it drips with abundance and authority. Where\u2019d that broke Jewish guy go?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Origins of a Scandal \u2013 Page 1 \u2013 News \u2013 Minneapolis \u2013 City Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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