"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in
> Ranee Mueller > wrote:
>>
>> Why is it that non-Catholics (and Catholics who don't attend church
>> or actually believe in the doctrines of their church) care so much about
>> the direction of the Roman Catholic church?
>
> Shoot, I don't "care" about its direction; I've just been fascinated
> with all the hubbub. And I would have loved to have been a fly on the
> wall in all the private conversations about who to elect. I love church
> politicking. :-0) And it's been pretty tough to avoid the subject of
> the papacy since April 7 or 8. Newspapers have been full of it. TV.
> Regular programming has been halted "to bring you this bulletin from The
> Vatican." It's been all the rage. God help him.

You can't get away from it. It takes up a whole section of my paper.
It's pre-empting tv shows left and right, it's so annoying. Peter Jennings
must be climbing the wall, this is right up his alley to bore people to
death with repetative commentary about some event like this.

Look, the smoke is white. No, it's not, oh bells are ringing.

Very annoying.

nancy