Trained Paid Professionals - two popes declared saints

Trained Paid Professionals

by Paul Kowalewski

This weekend two former popes will be declared saints in an elaborate ceremony in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Huge murals of these “holy saints” will be displayed on the facade of the enormous basilica.

The current pope, along with his cardinals, bishops and a slew of various other assorted clergy will sit on a stage towering above the millions of ordinary people in the vast crowds who will cheer in adulation and offer prayers petitioning the new saints to grant them favors.

From my point of view, the scene that will be enacted at the Vatican this weekend provides a perfect icon of just how far official Christendom has gone astray from the teachings of Jesus.

On any given weekend, average ordinary people throughout the world come into a church and sit in rows of pews. Many will look up at images of holy people depicted in murals, paintings and stained glass windows. Sitting high up on stage are the clergy along with their retinue, the pastors and the priests (or rabbis and imams) – the educated, trained, and often-times “paid” religious professionals.

As to the average ordinary people in those rows of pews? They are often the “unwashed mob” – kept at “arms length” from the center of the action. Most of the “pew people” can hardly imagine that their ordinary lives could ever be as “spiritual” as the saints in stained glass windows.

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