Reburying Cardinal Newman & My “Altar Call” From A Catholic Reader

This is so sad, such a betrayal of trust, such an insult, so truly tragic.
And on the same subject, or thereabouts, I had an interesting experience yesterday. A woman reader of my Beauty Tips for Ministers blog wrote me a long, impassioned letter about why I should turn away from the sinful ignorance of the Unitarian Universalist church and become a Catholic as she did.
Now, I have been very tired of Catholic-bashing in the UU church for some years now, as it seems to be a too-easily tolerated UU sport in my heavily-Catholic area, and one that does us no credit. So many of our members are come-outers from the Catholic church, it isn’t uncommon for lay sermons or introductions to start — or at least include –some casual put-down of the Catholic past one has left behind. When I am working on drafts with lay […]