CANADA
Metro
By Rosemary Westwood
Metro
I don’t lack reasons to be embarrassed: shiny forehead, very loud voice, a sometimes uptight nature.
Some days, I even have the bonus of being Catholic. It’s a bit like being an American — you’re an easy butt of jokes.
The Vatican can’t go long without sparking controversy, and the pope (any pope) can’t go long without inflaming the global public.
Such was the case this week. After Ireland legalized same-sex marriage in a historic referendum, a senior Vatican official said: “I think that you cannot just talk of a defeat for Christian principles but of a defeat for humanity.”
How ridiculous, and (perhaps inevitably) aggrandizing. A defeat for humanity is worsening climate change. A defeat for humanity is nuclear war. Even if you don’t support same-sex marriage (I do), allowing it doesn’t come with such dire consequences.
That’s far from my first, or likely last, embarrassment.
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