In which the pond settles for a Pellist Saturday meditation ...

It's a tad early for a Sunday meditation, but that flourish of paranoia by the other Shanahan was really too tempting ...

The fear and loathing mindset has always intrigued the pond, especially when there's absolutely nothing a wayward atheist might manage if they wanted to destroy the Catholic church in Australia that hasn't been topped in the most spectacular fashion by the behaviour of members of the Catholic church, what with the cover ups, the lies, the dissembling, and the astonishing legacy of trauma and suffering of children ...

This was all done by loyal servants of the church ... all that happened was that a Royal Commission lifted the rock off the unseemly stew ... to discover the white ants thriving within ...

But none of that troubles your average paranoid, as they sit don for lunch with servant in a comfortably furnished pad ...

Indeed, indeed, and as for that comfortably furnished apartment in the clerical style ...

Sob, if only the pond could afford a modest clerical style ...

Never mind, it's back to the paranoia, and never mind the talk of Vatican corruption, mismanagement, waste and scandal ... because, after all, that's what Christians do when surrounded by an unseemly amount of wealth ...

Actually, one can - as the pond has routinely done - admire his impeccable taste in frocks ...

Now there's a sure fire way to bring expenses under control, and extravagance into line, and show how to follow the Franciscan line on poverty ...

Just don't forget the kitchen fittings, the nun servant, the assistant, the comfortable lifestyle and the frocks ...

Oh dear, that's way too much meditating for a Saturday ... better leave room for Sunday, just in case ...