Not sure about this…
clamrampant June 13th, 2008
I was on Facebook just now, and randomly searching names for people I might add to my Friends list. One of the names I ran, more or less for the heck of it, was that of a priest I know and love.
It came up with something called “Father [X] [Y] Fan Club”.
Huh.
I don’t doubt that the members of the Father X Y Fan Club are sincere, good Catholics and good people. And hey – on an unofficial basis, I guess I’m a fan of Fr. X Y, in that I think he’s a wonderful priest, an incredible teacher of the Faith, and a very good man.
But I’m just not sure about a “fan club”. Father X himself is always careful to remind people that he’s not the one who matters. Christ is.
Then again, maybe this is just a harmless way for people to communicate about an excellent teacher of the Faith. I often recommend his talks to people – in fact, I found myself doing that on a blog comment just last evening. Maybe this is just another way of doing that. And there are other priest fan clubs on Facebook (and only a few of them seem to be facetious).
Ah well. It’s not for me to sort out anyway.
Good night, all – I’m going to try to go back to sleep now.
That is too funny! It must be fairly new, since several months ago, when I was bored, I trolled around like you were and did not find anything for Fr. XY. Made me snort my Cheerios. I think I’ll join. Hahahaha.
It’s probably ok. Some classmates of mine had a “cult” for our favourite Medieval Spanish literature professor. It was harmless fun.
But if they have T-shirts made up, it’s idolatry and someone needs to let loose the albino assassin monk. :/
T-shirts…oh my! I may never get up from the floor from laughing! Maybe we could give him a T-shirt for the Jaibee fan club…. Hahaha! So funny, the whole thing!