re: #203 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Catholic male privilege.

Catholic male *priest* privilege.

These men honestly believe that when they’re ordained priests, they become something different from the rest of us humans. After all, they have the ability to stand alter Christi and consecrate the elements of the Eucharist. Consequently, they believe that they are above the law. This goes back to medieval Europe, where there were two court systems—one for priests and one for everyone else. You, common dude, could claim you were a priest and get into the priest system if you could read. And yes, guys did it.

Just going to remind people that frequent communion (i.e., once a week, like so many of my Catholic friends growing up) is a relatively new thing. Almost all Catholics took communion once a year, at Easter. In the 19th century, frequent communion was pushed in Europe as a way to keep the faithful in the fold as so many people left their rural communities for the cities and “how you going to keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paris?”