Peregrinator

Certainly it can apply when we're talking about volunteer employment or membership in a private organization.

I don't know much about Bp. Kagan but if I had to call Abp. Carlson something, I would call him a moderate.

Nope, some at least seem to have it almost exactly backwards - that the program exists so that boys can advance.

I think it is clear that Baden-Powell viewed advancement and awards as the way to keep boys invested in the program rather than the other way around.

With respect, I think you are either missing the point or deliberately choosing not to address it. The chief concern is not handling/controlling or having a smooth-running operation. I'm sure an SM can handle/control scores of boys and have a smooth-running operation with a hundred boys or more. But consider whether in doing so the SM is bringing out the individual character or the boys or suppressing it.

Getting to know boys by name isn't key, the key is bringing out the individual character in each. It's not hard to learn the names of people. It's not hard to learn details of their private lives, especially when one is in a position of authority (e.g. a pastor). What is hard is helping form boys into men without taking away what makes each one a unique individual. B-P was a humble man and I'm sure he was more than capable of bringing out the individual character in 32 boys or even 40-50 boys at a time. But I don't think there are many men, if any, who can do the same for 70, 80, or 100 boy

If a troop gets so large that more than 4-5 patrols are necessary then it's probably time to form a new troop.

Four patrols makes perfect sense; that way the PLs and APLs could form a patrol of their own as there would be 8 of them.

I would read that as: "Be a {(boy who is 11 years old), or [(one who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award) and is at least 10 years old]}" Although I do admit that's not taking the precedence of logical operators into account. AND takes precedence over OR. If BSA wanted to be completely clear, they would restate it as: "Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one who is 10 years old and has either (a) completed the fifth grade or (b) earned the Arrow of Light Award."

I assume you mean 4 patrols of 3 each or 3 patrols of 4 each since 4 patrols of 4 each would be 16 boys. Nothing wrong with 2 patrols of 6 each, or even one of 5 and one of 7. The "ideal" number is 7 or 8.

That's hardly limited to millenials though. Look at our current crop of presidential candidates!

British gun control laws are fairly recent in the grand scheme of things. Our right in the USA to keep and bear arms is a direct descendant of the right developed in English common law, which in turn was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon militia system.

No they wouldn't have. The Inquisition was a court not a branch of the military.

I don't know anything about Barber but Madden gives a figure of 4,000 and Smith's booklet is polemical, not scholarly, and doesn't have the benefit of modern scholarship on the subject (it was written in 1931). Even if Kamen did rely primarily on 2nd- and 3rd-hand material, the alternative is to just make numbers up.

You can start with The Spanish Inquisition: A historical revision by Henry Kamen. I think the generally accepted figure now is that between 3,000 and 5,000 people were sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition and executed by the State. But people still buy into the "black legend" of the Inquisition popularized in Elizabethan England. ISIS killed approximately 6,000 in 2014 alone.

ISIS has already killed far more people than the Spanish Inquisition did in the 350 years of its existence, and likely more than all of the mediaeval Inquisitions put together.

Of course one can find similarities if one looks for them. But there are differences as well: LCMS - No longer supports BSA institutionally, leaves it to individual congregations to decide whether to continue to sponsor. KofC - Supports BSA through local parishes, but will not allow individual councils to decide whether to continue to sponsor BSA. or: LCMS - BSA is icky, but we won't tell you what to do. KofC - We're cool with BSA, but stop supporting them.

I'm not sure that comparison is accurate. The LCMS dissolved their MOU but they left the question of sponsorship up to each congregation. The KofC didn't do that.

What if we stuck to hypotheticals that weren't statistically impossible? I'm sure they didn't do it to screw the BSA troops they're sponsoring. I'm just pointing out that it is not simple. And some troops might fold rather than charter with a non-Catholic CO.

If the BSA did allow cub scout dens and boy scout troops to admit girls, it probably would not be too long before it became mandatory - assuming the UK and Canadian examples are any indication! There would probably be exceptions made for "bona fide religious organizations" who don't believe in co-education for youth.

Spose the local parish has a Trail Life troop. Or suppose (this is probably more likely) that the local parish doesn't have the space for a BSA troop to meet. That might be, after all, why the troop was sponsored by the KofC in the first place - perhaps they used the hall as a meeting space because the local parish or parishes didn't have the room. I just don't see this as a simple reorganization.

I don't think it's that simple. The parishes will have to pick up the charters. In any given case the pastor could refuse. Or the local parish might already have a troop.

KofC councils are not under parishes. They are sometimes (? frequently?) associated with parishes though. Even then I don't think there is anything preventing members joining a council from other parishes.

Assuming that parish sponsors can be found for over 1000 troops.

This is a weird statement, to say the least: