tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post3864303541179253830..comments2023-12-14T21:13:46.857-06:00Comments on Tom Roeser's Blog: How’s the USCCB Doing? Lobbying for the DREAM Act but Not a Word Against DADT. Parse-Parse. What Else Is New?Jake Parrillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11195261008177966339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post-62821260510890268892010-12-25T19:48:21.004-06:002010-12-25T19:48:21.004-06:00It's still a chapel, Lee.
A Chapel be buried...It's still a chapel, Lee. <br /><br />A Chapel be buried in a cloak room at a hospital, or in an airport terminal off the beaten track or in a tent at a circus, but it is still the place where Mass is held, and thus it is revered.<br /><br />Merry Christmas,<br />JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post-25764825045325173232010-12-24T12:49:38.461-06:002010-12-24T12:49:38.461-06:00In 1984, 26 yrs ago, I was in a Scripture seminar ...In 1984, 26 yrs ago, I was in a Scripture seminar at DePaul, a course taught by John Dominic Crossan, now of Jesus Seminar fame, who asserts that after Jesus was cut down from the cross, his body would have been eaten by dogs. <br />Even at the time he was laicized Servite priest, married and an unbeliever. He was constantly saying things that tended to undermine the faith, and I was constantly offering alternate viewpoints in an effort to save the faith of the young undergraduates. He appreciated the give and take and gave me a good grade, but why did I have to contend with him and with another laicized priest in the Theology Department? <br /><br />At the same time, I took a course in human sexuality in an effort to meet a science requirement. I went to one class, taught by a woman. When she was done desacralizing marital relations, I could hardly look anyone in the eye as we left the classroom. In the course of an hour she had turned us into so much meat.<br /><br />And this was, as I say, 26 years ago. Things have not gotten any better, but the trajectory was completely obvious three decades ago.<br /><br />Subsequent to this I visited the campus after their big building program downtown. Much was new and bright, but there was no upgrading, no improvement of the chapel, a chapel that should have been much enlarged and located in a prominent place in the campus. No, it is still virtually under the el tracks, a dark and dingy space that tells anyone with eyes to look what DePaul University thinks of Our Lord.Lee Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16506547355314136320noreply@blogger.com