[UA] Whoa. This is kinda neat, in a mean-spirited and black-hearted way...

[Tatterdemalion]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Toner" <thanatos at interaccess.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: [UA] Whoa. This is kinda neat, in a mean-spirited and black-hearted
way...


> Group accuses churches of being frauds
>
> By Kristen Wyatt
>
> Sept. 19, 2003  |  ATLANTA (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
> Atlanta has filed a lawsuit accusing a network of Spanish-speaking
> churches of falsely claiming to be Catholic -- with priests who conduct
> Mass, hear confessions and offer Communion to immigrants who mistakenly
> think the churches are tied to the Vatican.

Haha!  That's sick and beautiful -- Catholicism has a long history of
adopting the local practices in order to insinuate itself as the dominant
religion.  The fact that another religion is using this same technique to
insinuate itself with a Catholic base?  Very postmodern and recursive.

--Lisa



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