My wife is from the Philippines, she learned to worship under the sky and around a campfire. Now here with me and our family she loves to see the beauty of wonderful churches. Not for their wealth but for their reach to worship among other faithful. Shes sad they are so empty, and segregated by hierarchy. Each person trying to be more important than the others. I enjoyed the voice of our father but the people surrounding him were awful with their attitude and self importance. They would openly sneer at us because we were not 7th level seraphim and were not elevated to their rank. Then I found out that we were sitting in the seraphim ranks not supposed to be among them. Father asked us as new members to sit up front so he could see us. It took me awhile to figure out why the other people around us seemed upset? We were sitting in their spot. Last item, our beautiful church just paid off our debt to the Vatican bank. However, our cardinal during our free at fifty celebration announced that our church will now be saddled with debt from a failed monastery. We now had an additional 50 year's of debt added to the church. Father was livid, I saw his startled reaction. He tried to hide his disbelief but we all saw it. He was devastated. He went to the Vatican and was gone for a few months. He came back saddened and announced his retirement. The children's school we were going to reopen never was. Instead the city made it a pool hall for smoking and drinking. The church is desperate for funds to pay off its mountain of debt. The school I wanted to send my children to will never be opened. Instead they go to public schools in a broken system. All by design. Public schools are awful.

My wife is from the Philippines, she learned to worship under the sky and around a campfire. Now here with me and our family she loves to see the beauty of wonderful churches. Not for their wealth but for their reach to worship among other faithful. Shes sad they are so empty, and segregated by hierarchy. Each person trying to be more important than the others. I enjoyed the voice of our father but the people surrounding him were awful with their attitude and self importance. They would openly sneer at us because we were not 7th level seraphim and were not elevated to their rank. Then I found out that we were sitting in the seraphim ranks not supposed to be among them. Father asked us as new members to sit up front so he could see us. It took me awhile to figure out why the other people around us seemed upset? We were sitting in their spot. Last item, our beautiful church just paid off our debt to the Vatican bank. However, our cardinal during our free at fifty celebration announced that our church will now be saddled with debt from a failed monetary. We now had an additional 50 year's of debt added to the church. Father was livid, I saw his startled reaction. He tried to hide his disbelief but we all saw it. He was devastated. He went to the Vatican and was gone for a few months. He came back saddened and announced his retirement. The children's school we were going to reopen never was. Instead the city made it a pool hall for smoking and drinking. The church is desperate for funds to pay off its mountain of debt. The school I wanted to send my children to will never be opened. Instead they go to public schools in a broken system. All by design. Public schools are awful.