George Weigel on what Maggie Gallagher calls:


"The Decadent Catholic Corridor"


Adapted from the Archdiocese of San Antonio's newspaper "Today's Catholic." Friday, December 19, 2008. Page 10. The two Americas and the culture of death, by George Weigel.


"[W]hat this year's election cycle clarified decisively is that the great public fissure in these United States is between the culture of life and the culture of death.

"Then we come to adult catechesis.

"This year, the pro - abortion candidate carried every state in what Maggie Gallagher calls the Decadent Catholic Corridor -- the Northeast and the older parts of the Midwest [curiously enough, that includes at least one ordained deacon in St. Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church along with other parishioners aged 60 and over, too, not a few of them likewise K of Cs!].

"Too many Catholics there are still voting the way their grandparents did, and because that's what their grandparents did.

"This tribal voting has been described by some bishops as immoral; it is certainly stupid, and it must be challenged by adult education."

"to unsettle settled patterns of mindlessness" = Catholic Brackettville's challenge?


"That includes effective use of the pulpit to unsettle settled patterns of mindlessness.

"This year, a gratifying number of bishops began to accept the responsibilities of their teaching office; so now, must parish pastors [That's assuming, Mr. Weigel, that said pastors even believe in Jesus Christ in the first place themselves; which through long casual observation we've been able to confirm our own superstitious or simply atheistic priests here locally most certainly do not! :)]."

Some demons require special powers to exorcise


"And we need prayer -- lots of it.

"Some demons require special powers to exorcise.

"As of Nov. 5 [2008], it is clear that certain of them have taken up residence in the United States of America [¡Guau! "An overflow of them from Brackettville?" Da*m*n, maybe we are going places nationally!]."