Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Forgot.

I forgot, about that last conversation with the priest who runs my Latin class -

That weekend, I had been talking to my mother, and was telling her all the stuff about the Legionnaires etc., and she said that she's never paid much attention, but this one lawyer in my hometown was in that, and one year at a graduation party she ran into him and he was telling her about how he and his family was going to Rome for some Legionnaires, and she found out that the adults and children were required to travel on separate planes.

"I have never heard of anything stranger in my life," my mom said, "It made shivers run down my spine."

She also said that this one conservative catholic family was involved with them, and their daughter used to go to Mexico every year for some program with them, but she could never get a straight answer to what exactly she was doing there, until one day she found out that she was being a nanny for a rich Mexican family.

Anyhow, I was telling this to the priest, and he started going off on Legionnaires and ODei, and then the one guy who seems to be a conservative Catholic started saying that the only good priests he knew from the Legionnaires had left the order, but that there were some very spiritually sound priests in Opus, and he had been married by one, and at that the priest kind of bit his tongue a bit, but you could tell he didn't like it.

I started saying something about how the NY headquarters of ODei had not only separate entrances for men and women, but separate telephone switchboards, and the conservative Catholic guy (who has a mild Irish accent), started being all like, "Well, that is neither a good nor a bad thing, in itself."

It turns out, also, that all the kids he drags in (like anywhere from 3 to 5) are from the group he homeschools his kids with, though his own kids are away for the summer... A new kid just showed up, this high school kid who looks like a soccer jock, but with a bracelet of portraits of Mary and the name "Augustine".