(June 21, 2016 at 6:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My experience was much like Alex K's - family tradition, not worth making a big stink over. Plus - ours being an Irish family - I made out like a feckin' bandit on confirmation gifts.
But the BIG advantage is that any confirmed Catholic male not excommunicated is eligible to be elected Pope. Francis can't live forever...
Boru
You might try to plant an amtimatter bomb in the Vatican and then miraculously defuse it by jumping out of a helicopter. If the crowd then yells your name, you're it!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition