Figure 85 THE CHURCH THAT FORGOT CHRIST , by Jimmy Breslin. Free Press, 239 pp., $26. "What I am going to do now is invoke the special powers act of the first new Catholic parish in my diocese of Brooklyn since 1972, one in which I am in charge with the rank of bishop. Bishop Breslin. ... I qualify for the rank of bishop because I am not a pedophile." "A gold ring on a bishop's finger is the commercial of a pimp." "You can blame the church's condition on the Irish, who gave us total religious insanity. They are a race that sat in the rain for a couple of thousand years and promoted the most crazed beliefs in personal living outside the hillbillies." |