{"id":14,"date":"2005-01-24T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-01-24T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T13:44:48","slug":"growing-up-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/growing-up-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"growing up Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up as a Roman Catholic.  I started out going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dioceseoflascruces.org\/parishes\/html\/par_01.html\">Immaculate Conception<\/a> church, but for whatever reason (I wasn&#8217;t consulted) my mother switched us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zianet.com\/sjalamo\/\">St. Jude&#8217;s Mission<\/a>. The priest at St. Jude&#8217;s was Father Diamond, but he was assisted by Father Holley, who I remember today only as a producer of apalling sermons. (I specifically recall one whose central illustration was evidently adapted from Tony Orlando and Dawn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;q=lyrics+%22tie+a+yellow+ribbon%22&#038;btnG=Search\">Tie a Yellow Ribbon<\/a>&#8230; quite closely adapted, right down to the bus driver and the hundred ribbons tied to the old oak tree. The only worse sermon illustration I ever heard was from a Presbyterian pastor, who talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allinspiration.com\/Family\/Stories\/the_boy_who_had_no_ears.html\">boy with no ears<\/a>. Which might have been the inspiration for <a href=\"http:\/\/home.tiac.net\/%7Ecri\/1998\/ears.html\">this story<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>My guardian angels must have been working overtime, because that&#8217;s all I remember about Father Holley. But some people have other memories of him. In fact, he is a &#8220;textbook case&#8221; of how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishop-accountability.org\/specialtopics\/transfers\/Holley-1997-08-31-DMN-history.htm\">Church covered up priest abuse<\/a>. I only just learned all this when Google found me this story about what he&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapnetwork.org\/news\/otherstates\/nm_holley_has_parole_hearing.htm\">doing lately<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up as a Roman Catholic. I started out going to Immaculate Conception church, but for whatever reason (I wasn&#8217;t consulted) my mother switched us to St. Jude&#8217;s Mission. The priest at St. Jude&#8217;s was Father Diamond, but he was assisted by Father Holley, who I remember today only as a producer of apalling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-e","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}