Ask anyone who received even the tiniest education in an urban or suburban post Vatican II Catholic school and 99% will tell you that all they heard when half paying attention was help the poor, help the disabled, help the old, the sinner, the leper, the prisoner, the lonely. You know, help the worst of the worst. Also don’t leave money or other valuables in your desk on days the public school kids have CCD class.
As for the other 1%, well, ahem, we’ll just skip over the rapes and abuse and such.
So in comes The Boston GlobeSox with CRUX. Great I thought. We have a Pope from South America who spent most of his ministry working with those needing help the most and now there’s a go to place for Catholics and others who believe in the message Pope Francis’ is preaching and want to act on it.
And of course there would be great in depth reporting on the darker side of the Church,
Instead we get something more akin to a Catholic Magazine produced by the girls from Mount St. Joseph in Brighton.
Check out the headlines from the current edition
Calif. Catholics challenge abortion No problem here
I found $400 on the sidewalk in SF, and more than a week later found out it belonged to a visitor who returned to NY. Do I have to Give It Back? Today’s question in this ridiculous “Catholic Advice” column which is more like a morals class for kindergarteners.
Catholic University of America cancels screening of ‘Milk’ again no problem here
Watch: Parrot says the ‘Hail Mary’
Survey: Catholics pray for forgiveness – and their sports teams
Then there is their condescending “Catholic Football” coverage which gives weekly scores of every Division 1,2, and 3 Catholic team in the country. Why?
And how about my friend Margery Eagan. She loves Francis. She’s the first to tell you. But does she get it?
Here’s a taste of her latest column complaining that priests’ sermons are not based in reality.
If you went to Mass Sunday, it’s likely you heard nothing about terrorist plots, ISIS, air strikes in Iraq and Syria, what Pope Francis thinks about them. Ditto the scary spread of the Ebola virus or the climate change summit at the UN warning that time is running out — and what Francis thinks about all that.
Can you believe this? margery wants her sermons to be a weekly Fox News summary and have the flock focus on shit.
All this woman does is bitch bitch bitch like a an impatient Brookline mother telling the Starbucks’ barista to hurry up because she’s double parked and has to pick her kid up at the Montessori school.
I’m still waiting for stories on people, nuns, programs, and parishes working Pope Francis’s message everyday. Instead we get a publication when looked at in total is a condescending and illl-informed piece of smartly packaged garbage.
Pieces of clay get it. Why can’t the Globe$ox?
Jasiu says
I was one of those public school kids and appreciated any entertainment (or cash) left in the desks.
JimC says
I’m surprised you didn’t go with “Crux Sux.”
I’m a bit lost as to what Crux’s actual goal is (other than perhaps bringing a few Catholics who left in the wake of the scandal back to the Globe), but I imagine it will evolve as a normal Globe section and be something close to what you describe.
I haven’t seen the Pilot in a while, but it’s still kicking, right?
Peter Porcupine says
…are made by Protestants. Maybe it’s the RC itself that has bad subject matter?
(I was one of the public school kids that sat in a near empty classroom with a Jewish girl when all the Catholic kids got to leave early to go to catechism. Yeah. Sure they did)
Mark L. Bail says
was sooooooo Protestant. And as a little Catholic kid, I loved it. I used to get up early when I was young. I’d watch that. Gumby. Deputy Dawg. And Little Rascals. Sometimes I’d even watch the PTL Club, which was Protestant in a different kind of way. To be honest, I’d watch the test pattern if I got up too early. I guess I just liked television.
jconway says
Eagan, the advice columnists , and the football thing are very silly.
National Catholic Reporter is still my first stop for church news from a center-left perspective, particularly Michael Sean Winters. America is fairly good too, particularly since it has Fr. Jim Martin (chaplain to the Colbert Report).
Mark Shea is also fun to read, he is a by the book kind of Catholic on abortion but he is honest enough to recognize the modern right (what he calls “the beast that used to be conservatism”) has done a lot to divide and distort church teaching.
hesterprynne says
and I was surprised to learn from the “Which Pope Are You Most Like” feature on Crux that the Pope I am most like is Saint Peter. All this time I was thinking I was most like Boniface VI, who was defrocked for immoral behavior before becoming Pope. Learn something new every day.
Peter Porcupine says
…that Crux went all Buzzfeed.
So, I went on th site and took the quiz and got…Pope Francis. Who are we to judge?
I wonder if the RCC is being led by a closet Luther…