Reason for issuing the Compostela (was Re: Re: numbers..final)

[Scott Horton]

Perhaps, at the root if this, is the idea that some here seem to promulgate
that the exclusivity of receiving a "real" Compostela for "real" beliefs
makes the piece of paper all the more valuable.  Shortage increases value?
I think it is a mistake and rather distasteful to apply economic and
marketing theory to what is, ultimately, a personal and individual
motivation having a life and extreme value regardless of Catholic ritual and
strictures.

--Scott


>From: Howard Mendes <HMe347aAOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: Re: Reason for issuing the Compostela   (was Re:      Re:
>     numbers..final)
>Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:43:20 EDT
>
>In a message dated 05/06/04 09:29:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ed_maddenaLINEONE.NET writes:
>And no-one surely would say that an attempt at thought control was involved
>if a Catholic priest would only agree to provide a baptism certificate to
>someone who professed  the faith and went through the ceremony?
>This is fine for adherents to a faith; but what about non-believers who
>walk?
>  there is no requirement, thankfully, that one profess to be a Catholic to
>receive the Compostela.  As for Marathon certificates and academic degrees,
>of
>course there are requirements to earn them.  I don't take issue with the
>proof
>that one has walked or cycled a certain distance, but what does "a
>religious
>motive" really have to do with getting a Compostela?  The Church should
>eliminate this aspect of granting the Compostela despite all your arguments
>for
>keeping it.  As I said, personal or private motives are just as valid in my
>mind.
>HM NYC