UNITED STATES
Waiting for Godot to Leave

Today, I spent lunch with my friend and Theater of the Word actor Dave Treadway of Steward Media and I was on a tear, complaining about many things, especially this. “Dave,” I said, “I used to think the liberals in the Church caused all the trouble, until I met the conservatives in the Church. Now I’m getting used to rampant hypocrisy on both sides of the spectrum, from left to right – Catholics who are as bad as I am and worse, regardless of the number of devotions or novenas they pray. I am hurt by, but used to, leftist Catholics who ignore Church teaching and right-wing Catholics who despise the Catechism. I am used to, but hurt by, bad liberal bishops and bad conservative bishops. I am used to, but hurt by, my own infernal sinfulness, which keeps rearing its ugly…