A Stone in my Sandal

It's Saturday PM and I just completed one of my favorite "ing" words,mowing.
I love to mow my lawn. Mowing is good therapy; Jesus wants me to mow my lawn and keep it looking good. I think Jesus wants you to mow your lawns, so go and mow.

The Italian word for bad is "male"(pronounced mal-yeh). So, I'm thinking male, bad, and I am a male- Uncle Donnie is definitely a male- so maybe thats why I end up under the bus so much....."You know I'm bad, I'm bad" thank you Mike Jackson. That's right, "we bad, we bad".
Thing is, I got this little problem. It's a stone in my sandal, a little irritation that I gotta get some closure to. Robert Deniro needed this closure in Analyze This, not that I need a shrink or something. (Palmenteri insists that his underling find out what this closure thing is...same movie).

My stone is this:
what is up with so many Evangelicals turning to Rome, embracing (another good "ing" word) Catholicism? I've got nothing personal against my Catholic brethren, we all know Mama Corleone was a devout Catholic. And my own bruddah, I mean
brother, married a good Catholic girl, although I think she was Irish and probably still is. That is, Catholic and Irish. And talk about some great contributions to
or culture, like I'm sure there would be no "Happy Hour" or fish and chips on Friday without these guys; and what about Notre Dame football and DePaul basketball? Don't forget all those weekly parish bingo games!.... All this to say, Uncle Donnie
is not a Catholic-phobe.
So, I'm thinking, maybe all protestants evangelical or not, are merely the minor leagues, you know, training and playing for the day when they get "called up" by
the big team. Is Rome the big team? Where we can say, "I finally made it! I'm a
big leaguer now!" ???
You know, maybe we all started in A ball, where you get Jesus and you learn easy-believism, walk an aisle and learn how to hand out tracts with that
darling little evangelical smile. And then, you get the call to AA ball and you learn
how to not be like other religious groups and you learn how to temper your zeal with a little, "saintly self-righteousness", looking down on others because they either speak in tongues, or don't speak in tongues. What happens next, is the call comes again and you find yourself in AAA ball, where you begin to learn to reject most of what you've been taught. You've lost your first love of the game, you loose the Jesus you found long ago, and you learn to be more formal, more mature, more polished at your game. And now, now you're sure and ready to get the call, the call back to the home team, the big team, the Roman team. You made the journey home....congratulations!

You say, "But Uncle Donnie,this happens so rarely, what's the big deal?"
Uncle Donnie says it is happening all the time.
There are Catholic cable stations with programming, including shows like The Journey Home, where former pastors, teachers and lay-people tell the stories of their journey home to the Mother Church, the true Church Of Jesus Christ.
There are pastors relinquishing their denominational credentials to work in new Catholic start up churches and so on, and so forth, yadda, yadda, yadda... Whaddya gonna do?

Well, that is my problem.....
Maybe I should request a sit-down and see what could be worked out. Maybe I should just give the Catholics a pass and forgeddabahdit.
Whaddya think?

Donnie