priorities

By ( articles ) | Dec 28, 2009

On a quiet winter day, with no pressing work to do, a friend visited the site of the US bishops’ conference, and did a Google search restricted to English-language results on that site.

He tried “transubstantiation” and the search returned 26 hits. Interesting. He continued:

• “St. Joseph”- 69 hits
• “Virgin Mary”- 433 hits

then, shifting focus a bit:

• “appropriations”- 592
• “welfare”- 1,740
• “environment”- 2,620

The winner, in this highly unscientific survey:

• “health care” with a whopping 2,840 hits.