Today’s blog is inspired by Luke.
In my never-ending quest to discover what is wrong with me and why I am not gainfully employed — yes, despite the job situation, I do feel that I should be able to find a job I can be passionate and dedicated to — I have hit on a new diagnosis.

We were reading Andrew Greeley’s NYT Op-Ed today arguing that celibacy is not the problem in the priesthood, it’s mediocracy and arrogance. Mediocracy because just 18 percent of Catholic parishioners polled said the sermons were excellent. Arrogance because the priests polled said that parishioners were suffering from moral decline, loss of faith, apathy, materialism, lack of responsibility and lack of personal leadership. In other words, why try to be a great priest when your parishioners are so flawed and irredeemable?

That’s when I discovered the stunning truth: I am a litany of horrors! Greeley listed the reasons why clergy believe parishioners are leaving the church: “the usual litany of horrors: individualism, secularism, no faith, poor prayer life, no commitment, media bias, hedonism, sex, feminism, family breakdown and apathy.”

There you have it.

Oh, the horror. The horror.