Clerics in the Kitchen

Over the last 15 years, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, under the leadership and authority of its bishops, has become mainly two things. It is, first and most stridently, a jumbled shop-front jammed with a motley array of political issues, civil squabbles, sociological experiments, and psychological theories.

Second, and more poignantly, it is a gristmill grinding down the hope and enthusiasm of faithful believers who know that their bishops have neglected the purity of faith and the practice of religion in their Church, in favor of such issues as environmental pollution, ethnic rights, land distribution, the Panama Canal, Rhodesian chrome, and the evils of U.S. capitalism.

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Malachi B. Martin

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Over the last 15 years, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, under the leadership and authority of its bishops, has become mainly two things. It is, first and most stridently, a jumbled shop-front jammed with a motley array of political issues, civil squabbles, sociological experiments, and psychological theories.

Second, and more poignantly, it is a gristmill grinding down the hope and enthusiasm of faithful believers who know that their bishops have neglected the purity of faith and the practice of religion in their Church, in favor of such issues as environmental pollution, ethnic rights, land distribution, the Panama Canal, Rhodesian chrome, and the evils of U.S. capitalism.