Liberal Crozier
07-09-2006, 04:03 AM
Yes, and I don't mean Meryl Streep or the real person on which her character was drawn from. And no, my spouse will not support my use of such a description of the man - despite the fact that he believes he acts out of the deepest feelings of self-hatred and an inability to differentiate between paedophiles and healthy homosexuals.
Yes, the papal -----okay, I'll be kind ------metrosexual---ostensibly celibate ----- had his first Papal edict by sacking the papal tailors who had clothed the pontiffs for centuries. What difference does it make that this pontiff has a fashion sense along with his intense homophobia and faulty theological defences for his verbal violence.
This weekend, the Fuhrer Papen Ratzinger is in Spain in order to forment trouble for the Socialist government and prime minister who legalised same-sex marriage and made abortion choices legal in Spain. Remember, that only a few decades ago, homosexuality and abortion were criminal acts punishable by imprisonment with the key thrown away. The Roman Catholic Church was the established and only Christian denomination in Spain. All Protestant denominations were illegal outside foreign embassy staffers. More they could not serve any Spaniard, and could not wear any clothing or uniform suggesting that they were Reformation pastors.
Again, this global Papal strategy - to visit Canada, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain - is not to attend Catholic spiritual conclaves but rather to incite his supporters to bait and switch the losses incurred by the paedophile scandal but scapegoating gay priests and lay religious especially for the phenomenom. It also sidesteps the celibacy and married priest issues and by giving imprimatur to the homophobia present in most societies.
The Pope is allegedly not the only Catholic with an internalised homophobia who remains within that Church, and more, props up the lie about a moral life lived as either a Catholic Christian LGBT individual - single or same-sex coupled and married if legally possible. Many also when not legal make spiritual vows in the presence of God and the community.
Interesting however, is that hypocrisy is always hard to legislate for any length of time. Despite their intention to purge - Inquisition-style - all Roman Catholic gay clergy or potential seminarians - it has occurred to the Church that most heterosexual candidates do not want to maintain the celibacy disciplinary statute for their Latin rite only....with exceptions for former dissident Anglican or Lutheran clergy as well as their Eastern rite priests in certain nations.
Bravo to the prelates and priests who basically said to their bishops....Okay, sweetie, if you purge me and my friends - we, who have known you since we were seminarians together, and since, will "out" you for your hypocrisy. So think long and hard before you decide to purge me. Also, the Church has had a dirth of vocations - especially in religious congregations and orders as well as diocesan clergy - ever since the Depression-era and post WWII-crop have been retiring for several decades.
More, European Catholics are most cultural communicants - twice a year or at birth, marriage and death. In the USA and Canada, years of either dominance or theocracy in QC, have truly made those societies secular in outlook and theology.
The largest dioceses in Latin America - where most Catholics live and accept the Magisterium without question - and where all the non-fascist bishops from the privileged families consecrated by John XXIII - are experiencing major inroads by the American fundamentalist Protestants who are sending " Christian missionaries " to convert Catholics to Protestantism. More, one of the Central American nations boasts a fundamentalist Protestant president.
Ratzinger is brilliant and is someone - if studied - could add a chapter or two to THE PRINCE. Against all odds, he won the Papal Conclave vote despite the fact that he could become a divisive force. He himself is absolutely responsible for the purging of bishops throughout the world who opposed him, to say nothing of the Halloween letter and the silencing of all liberal theological voices who defined the pontificates of John XXIII Roncalli and early Paul VI Montini.
Yes, the papal -----okay, I'll be kind ------metrosexual---ostensibly celibate ----- had his first Papal edict by sacking the papal tailors who had clothed the pontiffs for centuries. What difference does it make that this pontiff has a fashion sense along with his intense homophobia and faulty theological defences for his verbal violence.
This weekend, the Fuhrer Papen Ratzinger is in Spain in order to forment trouble for the Socialist government and prime minister who legalised same-sex marriage and made abortion choices legal in Spain. Remember, that only a few decades ago, homosexuality and abortion were criminal acts punishable by imprisonment with the key thrown away. The Roman Catholic Church was the established and only Christian denomination in Spain. All Protestant denominations were illegal outside foreign embassy staffers. More they could not serve any Spaniard, and could not wear any clothing or uniform suggesting that they were Reformation pastors.
Again, this global Papal strategy - to visit Canada, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain - is not to attend Catholic spiritual conclaves but rather to incite his supporters to bait and switch the losses incurred by the paedophile scandal but scapegoating gay priests and lay religious especially for the phenomenom. It also sidesteps the celibacy and married priest issues and by giving imprimatur to the homophobia present in most societies.
The Pope is allegedly not the only Catholic with an internalised homophobia who remains within that Church, and more, props up the lie about a moral life lived as either a Catholic Christian LGBT individual - single or same-sex coupled and married if legally possible. Many also when not legal make spiritual vows in the presence of God and the community.
Interesting however, is that hypocrisy is always hard to legislate for any length of time. Despite their intention to purge - Inquisition-style - all Roman Catholic gay clergy or potential seminarians - it has occurred to the Church that most heterosexual candidates do not want to maintain the celibacy disciplinary statute for their Latin rite only....with exceptions for former dissident Anglican or Lutheran clergy as well as their Eastern rite priests in certain nations.
Bravo to the prelates and priests who basically said to their bishops....Okay, sweetie, if you purge me and my friends - we, who have known you since we were seminarians together, and since, will "out" you for your hypocrisy. So think long and hard before you decide to purge me. Also, the Church has had a dirth of vocations - especially in religious congregations and orders as well as diocesan clergy - ever since the Depression-era and post WWII-crop have been retiring for several decades.
More, European Catholics are most cultural communicants - twice a year or at birth, marriage and death. In the USA and Canada, years of either dominance or theocracy in QC, have truly made those societies secular in outlook and theology.
The largest dioceses in Latin America - where most Catholics live and accept the Magisterium without question - and where all the non-fascist bishops from the privileged families consecrated by John XXIII - are experiencing major inroads by the American fundamentalist Protestants who are sending " Christian missionaries " to convert Catholics to Protestantism. More, one of the Central American nations boasts a fundamentalist Protestant president.
Ratzinger is brilliant and is someone - if studied - could add a chapter or two to THE PRINCE. Against all odds, he won the Papal Conclave vote despite the fact that he could become a divisive force. He himself is absolutely responsible for the purging of bishops throughout the world who opposed him, to say nothing of the Halloween letter and the silencing of all liberal theological voices who defined the pontificates of John XXIII Roncalli and early Paul VI Montini.