Fortunately me dino was not bothered by any pedophile priests.

something tells me that the purpose of the altar boys was something far different from what they were telling us

Yeah, I recall believing it as a kid when priests and nuns told me the Catholic church was the one true church.
Remember when little dino and my brother Steve were told we are altar boys by a priest.
It was like being conscripted.
That priest HAD to have spoken to our parents first. They sure were not surprised.
Didn't want to be an altar boy but knew I'd get into trouble if I said no.
Steve and I were altar boys for countless weekday early morning masses with three or four old people being all who showed up.
That got old with going to school too.

I think I went into a church with a friend who wanted to get the ashes for lent. ( I didnt participate in the ceremony..). I remember being surprised to see all the plaster statues of the supposedly holy saints, and the votive candles that you would put money in the collection device and you got to light one candle (for whatever reason). The whole thing was very etherial and other worldly and completely disconnected from reason. Strange at this point that people actually go for this pomp and circumstance. Didnt seem so bad when I was a kid and went with my mother to church services.

If me dino was excommunicated for being a deplorable ex-Catholic, I'd laugh in some
archbishop's face.
The last two times me dino attended a Catholic mass were those said first for my deceased mother and secondly for my deceased father about 7 years apart. I was among Protestants who sat when Catholics kneeled and of course I did not take communion.
Last time I did that was previously at a Methodist Christmas service. No! Memory jog! It was secondly at a niece's wedding in a chapel at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage home in Old Hickory, a city beside Birmingham, Tennessee.
Me dino have 4 younger brothers, no sisters.
1. Me dino is a nondenominational Protestant.
2. Think Brother Steve is agnostic.
3. Brother Joe is like me in a believer's respect.
4. Brother Tom is a deceased Methodist who evidently fell asleep driving and crashed into a tree.
5. Brother John became a self-proclaimed agnostic for years before he "reconverted" (his words) back into a Catholic. Why he did it is his business,

they can excommunicate me anytime they want, no big deal. I am a "deplorable"- isnt that good enough reason to be excommunicated?

Thanks for the inspiration! Some hag in The View may kick off too.
Unless someone beats me to it, and it won't hurt my feelings if you or someone else does, I found a YouTube video to post here.
Besides, I'm 75 and could go first. I'm not sick or anything but you never know.
This video cuts short of the sister showing up, looking for those ruby slippers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdR...

I know what song I will be singing when she finally kicks off - "Ding Dong the witch is dead". I'll get the local rock station to play it, and I know they will. Same for Hillary, Maxine,...

I'm surprised that nobody has tried declaring a schism and appointing a new pope. This has been done multiple times, though official histories always wind up calling the rebel an "anti-pope."

Waiting for Francis to die won't help. He has purged enough non-woketards from the heirarchy that it'll be difficult to undo the takeover from within.

And it just seems fitting that we should have an "anti-pope" at the same time and for the same reason that we now have an "anti-president."

Check out the last line of my excommunicated list below.

Well, yes and no (ex-Catholic, too). My mother did the horrible sin of getting divorced and remarried (it was the remarrying that did her in) and she was never notified of any such excommunication, but she knew better than to take the sacraments. Point being A REAL PRACTICING CATHOLIC who actually believes all that stuff ... would not desecrate the sacraments when they KNEW they were outside allowable behavior. The San Francisco Pig knows she's outside allowable Catholic behavior but she continued to take the sacraments until an example was made of her.

Wasn't soon enough... and I still don't believe any of that. But if you're going to profess to belong to a certain belief group, best follow their beliefs. Editing to add: WTF is Francis doing? Why is he even there? Do they believe nothing any more? With that stance he's not even a shell of a Catholic. UGH.

Here is a historical list. Me dino recalled an "excommunicated King of England" (that's how I went looking for not recalling his name) but found there were two, one a King John who repented and was let back into The Church (that claimed to be the only way to stay out of Hell) and a King Henry, who did not repent and made himself the head of the Church of England.
Reading about both, me dino stumbled on a list of perhaps all of those excommunicated by "Holy Mother The Church" as I heard priests call it before me an old dino became an ex-Catholic during the early Seventies.
WHOA! The very last occurred August of 2020 when a priest in Sacramento refused to recognize the legitimacy of Pope Francis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

One thing is for sure~~Far moire important to Piglosi is her view that denouncing her stance on abortion is political suicide.

Sometimes you just will never know.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?vi...

yes, thats the term. I think you had to do something really bad to have the church do that.

Me dino believes that term to be "excommunicate."

Some glib politicians have been known to, as the saying goes, "wrap themselves in the American flag."
Me dino says abortion supporter insider trading Piglosi has rather boastfully wrapped herself up in the flag of the Vatican on several occasions.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=vatican...
Abortion supporter Quid Pro Quo Joe has done the same. Hardly an Ash Wednesday goes by without me seeing at least one recent photo of a smiling Joe with an ash cross on his forehead.
That goes for the last Ash Wednesday too.

As I remember it when I was a catholic over 50 years ago, you had to be specifically thrown out of the church (I forget what the term was) before you couldntreceive communion.

The BB is way too close to reality with this one. Are they really sure it's satire? I'm laughing and cringing at the same time, waiting for someone in the "media" to expose her real self.

The catholic church is a bit out of step with todays world. what difference does it make if they allow her to even allow her to attend mass, let alone anything else with the church.

Follow up on my previous comment. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Piglosi the progeny of the Sicilian mafia? They've made a career out of using the Catholic Church as a cover for who they really are - murderous scum.

It is note worthy that Pope Francis does not agree. I apologize for offending Catholics but I feel the church is backsliding into apostasy. Even my own former denomination has embraced “The WOKE”. Despite all the old doctrine that tells them the opposite. They speak from both sides of their mouths. When you point out the glaringly obvious hypocrisy, they have no theological argument to support their position. The reaction is instead akin to a sexual predator whispering in the ear “Shhhhhhhh....shhhh..shhh...... just let this happen.”

I'm sure the Evil Hag is floating around there somewhere.

Last night, Tucker Carson showed The View siding with Pelosi against that archbishop.
Maybe they all belong to a coven that the Wicked Witch of the West runs.

When me dino started to post some Babylon Bee's,
I was accused of not knowing it was satire by at least a couple of Gulchers.
Each and every time I used the "humor" tag.
At least you have eyes that can see.