Seeking a Promotion for the Virgin Mary
Half a world away, inside the Vatican, yet another enormous box arrived filled with petitions asking Pope John Paul II to exercise his absolute power to proclaim a new and highly debated dogma: that the Virgin Mary is a co-redeemer with Jesus and cooperates fully with her son in the redemption of mankind.
This cracks me up. As more and more challenges are issued to the Vatican, the traditional patriarchical structure of the Roman Catholic church could implode under it’s own weight (and become Episcopalian? ;-)