On a (Chicken) Wing and a Prayer
A group of 60 ministers protested plans to open a Hooters restaurant in Waco, Texas. It went in anyway, and on opening day Monsignor Isidore Rozycki, the head Roman Catholic priest for the area, was there to say a blessing. “Blessings are part of the Catholic tradition,” Rozycki said, noting he had eaten at other Hooters outlets. He noted the restaurants in the chain are “a place of laughter” with “great food.” Fr. Rozycki got the gig by invitation: a police detective suggested it to the restaurant managers, and they liked the idea. Rozycki felt it was important to bless the “families that enter” as well as the employees who work there to support their families, but many area Catholics are outraged that the 63-year-old priest would dare enter the restaurant. (Waco Tribune) ...Yet the moment someone spots an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a steamed clam, they’ll all flock to the place.
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