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March 27, 2008
Hillary & Other Spooky Religious Stuff
Anyone know anything about something called The Fellowship? (Not the Fellowship of St. James!) Joshua Green at Atlantic.com writes about it. Of course, it is secretive according to this report, with archives located somewhere on the campus of Wheaton College (Ill.), classified as "restricted" and kept under lock and key. I guess since the archives are just down the road 30 miles, it caught my attention. I do vaguely recall hearing something about "the Family" some years ago. The New Republic blog calls this "spooky" and makes it into plural "affiliations." Other words like shadowy and secretive appear.
This causes me to think of a few other politicians, who's names I am unable to mention, who most certainly fairly regularly stop by their churches, and spend some time talking to their pastors in secret. The pastors (or priests) won't divulge what they routinely talk about, and the politicians aren't saying. They say it is none of our business. In some cases a politician even kneels down before the priest, and in other cases the priest is passing on secret instructions to him. For what, who knows? Spooky.
Well, I don't know what the deal is with The Fellowship, but who knew that this presidential election campaign would see so much coverage of religion!
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If memory serves, I believe it is an annual retreat/gathering of politicians, et al, who live "under the heavy burden of power." They have been accused of conducting strange rituals vaguely reminiscent of a college fraternity initiation.
Lord Acton, pray for us!
Fr. Bob
Posted by: Fr. Robert K. McMeekin | Mar 27, 2008 1:09:15 PM
Reminds me of the comments the pagans made in the days of the Roman Empire about the "strange rituals" of the Jesus cult. You know, drinking His blood, and eating His body.
Posted by: Bill R | Mar 27, 2008 1:15:59 PM
I think the article about "the Family" might have been this one at Harper's.
Posted by: jquinby | Mar 27, 2008 3:15:14 PM
Yikes. Are they also hiding the secret descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene?
Posted by: Judy K. Warner | Mar 27, 2008 4:58:04 PM
Gee, the only shadowy secret I heard about while I was at Wheaton was their sequestered collection of occult books. This Fellowship thing seems sweet! Now all they need is the skull of Geronimo...or maybe Billy Sunday would do. :)
I wonder how the evolutionary psychologists explain the human penchant for thinking that our rulers must be involved in some secret plot?
Posted by: Ethan C. | Mar 27, 2008 11:46:54 PM
For those that don't know, Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society to which both George W. Bush and John Kerry belonged, is rumored to possess the skull of Geronimo as well as various other human remains. They also have a private island, and that's for real!
Perhaps a Wheaton-based secret society could find something available in northern Lake Michigan...
Posted by: Ethan C. | Mar 28, 2008 12:04:33 AM
Fr. McMeekin,
I think you're actually thinking of the "Bohemian Grove."
Posted by: Edgewise | Mar 29, 2008 2:33:48 AM
That's it!
Posted by: Fr. Robert K. McMeekin | Mar 29, 2008 9:39:48 AM
To think, I spent 4 years at Wheaton and failed to join or even discover the secret group that runs the world. I can't seem to do anything right.
Posted by: Nathan T | Mar 31, 2008 9:47:09 AM
Same here, Nathan! But I guess if we had known about them and been able to join, they wouldn't have been all that secret or elite, would they? :)
Posted by: Ethan C. | Mar 31, 2008 12:21:08 PM
Nathan & Ethan,
How do we know that you are not members? If you were, you would deny it, even make fun of it . . . just like you are doing. Your posts here are very suspicious. You have probably been using this blog for some time to send secret messages to each other and to other members of THE FELLOWSHIP.
Posted by: GL | Mar 31, 2008 1:55:34 PM







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