{"id":11216,"date":"2011-03-28T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2011-03-28T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:12:13","slug":"how-to-get-a-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/03\/how-to-get-a-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a book deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

So if you were accused of indecent exposure, assault and five counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and plead guilty on one count how do you get a book deal? Simple just be a priest who was laicized and excommunicated and has a bone to pick with his faithful bishop. Life Teen founder Dale Fushek has a book out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similarly Father Cutie who broke his promises as a priest and had a secret affair also got a book deal where he attacks his bishop.<\/p>\n

Both men not only left the Church but started up again as Protestants and complain about how they were treated. Fushek started a Praise and Worship Center – you know one of those open and non-judmental churches where of course you wouldn’t want to make a judgment about Fushek “flicking” of a young man’s genitals.<\/p>\n

These of course are the exceptions since there are plenty of books by priests faithful to the Church who have good things to say about their bishop who got book deals – oh wait.<\/p>\n

I have also wondered why is it that usually when the founder of a movement goes so much awry that the movement they started is reevaluated or ended, yet Life Teen just goes on.<\/p>\n

Though I am biased in this regard since I consider Life Teen masses totally wrongheaded. You don’t get teens to learn to love the Mass by presenting a different Mass with secular overtones. If they start going to Life Teen Masses because they like the music, will they keep going as adults? I am very curious if any study has been done showing if members of Life Teen keep going to Mass as adults?<\/p>\n

My bias is based on the fact that as a teenager I went to Mass with my mother at a parish with rock music where popular songs were used and people held hands and swayed almost like a wave. I even sang in the small ensemble. They really reached out for youth and even as a young atheist I could put up with going to Mass because of the music. That the year I sang for that parish I got no doctrinal content is no surprise or that the two priest there later left the priesthood. I might not have been open to the truth of the Church at that time, it just would have been nice if they had made an effort towards actual catechesis instead of feel good worship that didn’t make an atheist uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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