[KLUG Advocacy] Calling Western US LUGs!!!

[advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org]

>>>Why don't they add a bullseye target, fill it with water and have them
>>>function as dunk tanks.  Waiting parishoners could throw at the target
>>>to dunk the priest (or the person confessing).  It would make for quick
>>>baptisms on Sunday. 
>>>(what's up with the sacerdotal anyway? Like Marten Luther I just don't
>>>get it)
>>I'm not Catholic, 
>Me either.
>>but what is "sacerdotal"? 
>Thanks to the Dictionary box on by galeon window:
>One entry found for sacerdotal.
>Main Entry: sac·er·do·tal
>Pronunciation: "sa-s&r-'dO-t&l, "sa-k&r-
>Function: adjective
>Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin sacerdotalis,
>from sacerdot-, sacerdos priest, from sacer sacred + -dot-, -dos (akin
>to facere to make) -- more at SACRED, DO
>Date: 15th century
>1 : of or relating to priests or a priesthood : PRIESTLY
>2 : of, relating to, or suggesting sacerdotalism
>- sac·er·do·tal·ly /-t&l-E/ adverb
>Just don't ask me to explain any farther.   :-)

So it is an adjective bieng used as a noun,  which explains why the phrase felt
so odd.  But maybe in Catholic circles it is jargoned to mean something more
specific or imply some connotation?