Another church notice that spells alienation and clericalism

This notice hangs on the sacristy

door of a church in south Dublin in the Archdiocese of Dublin.

It has a similar tone to the notice about keeping silent, which appeared on this blog on April 10.

It says so much about the attitude and mentality of the clerical caste. It is shocking and inexcusable and certainly a notice that Pope Francis would never dare put on a door.

Besides the inappropriateness of the notice it tells a great story about the mindset of all that is wrong in clericalism.

It happens so often that a person wants to walk into the sacristy to talk to the priest before or after the celebration of Mass. And the irony of it, in this specific case, to gain access to the toilets, which were built at great expense, it is on some occasions necessary to walk through the sacristy.

But that is an incidental. Written all over this notice is silly pomposity and clericalism, which Pope Francis has condemned on many occasions.

The arrogance of it, stupidity too. 

Pope Francis pleads for a welcoming church. This is anything but welcoming. At all costs keep everything private. Secrecy is the oxygen that helps so much wrong-doing thrive in the church.