text: Powerful. Thank you ATF. I go to Mass - occasionally; let the collection plate pass, take the alpha male pontifications with a grain of salt, fester in my ire anxious for (heretically unmerited) Eucharist asking myself whether I believe but strong in my faith that Jesus broke the bonds of space and time and that I am dying, rising too, bit by bit- through him; in Him; with Him.
  I leave angered. If that parish had nothing it could stand; because it has much it fails itself - strange. 
  If the church had nothing it could stand for what it is. Because it has so much it won't and forfeits what it is for. Strange, sad. 
  So, I come here and rant.
  Jimmy Breslin said it: the homeless found warmth from the freezing cold in the vast 5th Ave. St Patrick's Cathedral - ill 8pm -when it really got cold. They are told to leave so we can "lock up", keep "us" safe from you.
  And then there is the "woman thing" - another rant comin' on...