Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and I was just a young sprout growing up in Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi, I went to Catholic school and church regularily. Now, across the street from the monastery attached to the church was the local college, which was run by the same order of priests who had the parish (Franciscans, OFMs to be precise). Under the street was a tunnel connecting the main college administration building and the monastery, a convenience for the priests who worked at the college and lived in the monastery.

Most everyone in town knew about it, because they had to tear up a busy street to make the tunnel. Nobody thought anything awful about it.

Except for us kids.

At one point we who attended the Catholic school had every non-Catholic kid in the North End of town convinced that not only were there guns stored in that hundred-yard-long tunnel, but that it went clear to the Atlantic Ocean, under the ocean, and straight to the Vatican. At the Vatican we told them that the Swiss Guards were getting ready to invade any day now and take over the town. All the non-Catholics would be put into jail and Catholic kids would be given the toys and bicycles of the non-Catholic kids, so just hand your bike over now and avoid the problems later, okay?

Boy, did we get in trouble! Priests, nuns, and parents! Ministers, rabbis -- never saw so many men and women "of religion" in that school before or since! Whoooo!

I wouldn't worry about it, Bobert. Catholic Church has enough trouble right now. Mel Gibson still goes to the Latin Mass, I understand -- one of a dwindling number of folks to do so, and some of whom have gotten themselves excommunicated.