Just this week, the Biship of St. Louis, Bishop Burke, became one of the 23 newly ordained (or whatever happens to them) Cardinals in Rome.
Burke was the head of the La Crosse area diocese (sp?) and spearheaded a $24M project to build a shrine to a Guadalupe (Sister/Nun/Saint) in our area...just on the south side of La Crosse.
During this time, the same La Crosse area diocese was in turmoil about having to close some of the Catholic Schools because of funding shortfalls.
HUH?????
They have $24M for a shrine honoring some dead Mexican babe and when it comes to helping to school their own, they have nothing to spare?
I'm just happy they weren't participating in funding our local government...those folks are screwing up fine without any religious help being taken and included. Or religious experience.
Anyways, it looks to me that the way to becoming a Bishop, then Cardinal, is start and finish a "tourism project" that gets believers to open a coin purse or three, and you can then count on your "project" getting you closer to the Pope...never mind the starving minds that you just kicked to the curb...they don't make "hay" when you need them to.
And some of you are surprised by what appears to be a bit of "dis-logic" concerning a rubber?
It is ALMOST laughable...if it weren't so true...
