Home, baking, and Catholicism
May. 15th, 2004 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meanfreepathSo I got home this afternoon, making good time back from Swat. It's always weird to get back home at first, because you get so used to college life.
Right now I'm baking raisin bread and waiting for the dough to rise. We're going to my Grandma's tomorrow and my mom wanted me to do some baking for them. It's nice to think that my baking has improved from my first ever attempt to bake bread, which was a fiasco. I was using really bad flour with an insufficient gluten content, which didn't help. I think I also was trying to halve the recipe and forgot to halve the salt. So I ended up with a flat, oversalted frisbee, essentially.
And now, in the great SWIL LJ tradition, a post about religion. Perhaps this will be one of those that generate a gazillion comments.
I'm rather shocked to read in the news that a bishop in Colorado is threatening to deny communion to Catholics who vote for politicians supporting abortion (I'm Catholic). Also my local bishop took a rather strong stance in a similar vein about Governor McGreevey of New Jersey, saying something about him being a bad Catholic for his support of abortion. I'm not sure what to think. For me, in politics, abortion is not the issue that's going to make me favor one candidate over another. And traditionally, Catholics should care about other issues, ie social justice. I just hate it when people in the Catholic Church overpoliticize things.
It was interesting when I was talking to my dad about this. We wound up talking for a bit on power in the Church. (he didn't agree with the Colorado bishop's actions either). One interesting tidbit -- apparently Pope Paul VI or whoever it was that published the encyclical condemning artifical contraception did that over the objections of a lot of bishops, which was something new.
Right now I'm baking raisin bread and waiting for the dough to rise. We're going to my Grandma's tomorrow and my mom wanted me to do some baking for them. It's nice to think that my baking has improved from my first ever attempt to bake bread, which was a fiasco. I was using really bad flour with an insufficient gluten content, which didn't help. I think I also was trying to halve the recipe and forgot to halve the salt. So I ended up with a flat, oversalted frisbee, essentially.
And now, in the great SWIL LJ tradition, a post about religion. Perhaps this will be one of those that generate a gazillion comments.
I'm rather shocked to read in the news that a bishop in Colorado is threatening to deny communion to Catholics who vote for politicians supporting abortion (I'm Catholic). Also my local bishop took a rather strong stance in a similar vein about Governor McGreevey of New Jersey, saying something about him being a bad Catholic for his support of abortion. I'm not sure what to think. For me, in politics, abortion is not the issue that's going to make me favor one candidate over another. And traditionally, Catholics should care about other issues, ie social justice. I just hate it when people in the Catholic Church overpoliticize things.
It was interesting when I was talking to my dad about this. We wound up talking for a bit on power in the Church. (he didn't agree with the Colorado bishop's actions either). One interesting tidbit -- apparently Pope Paul VI or whoever it was that published the encyclical condemning artifical contraception did that over the objections of a lot of bishops, which was something new.
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Date: 2004-05-18 11:47 am (UTC)