UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
OMG. Did someone say head-turners? (Yes, I’m between popcorn runs, and very glad I bought in a big new supply of popcorn today, because it looks like the telenovela is only going to get, well, more hilarious and dramatic, steamier and more engrossing in the build-up to the Synod on the Family.)
I’m between two commitments today and have had a moment to read your thread of welcome comments to my last posting, and am now learning about the Polish (Polish!) theologian Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa who got sacked after holding a public coming-out press conference and introducing his attractive Spanish partner to the world. A theologian with the conservative Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, no less!
The same Vatican congregation over which Pope John Paul II placed as his right-wing, right-hand theological watchdog Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI (and who is still pope — EPope, as Colleen has tagged him. We really need a little guide to the cast of characters for this engrossing telenovela; it’s getting hard to keep them all sorted out) . . . .
The same Vatican congregation that, under Ratzinger, produced the horrendous “pastoral” letter for Halloween 1986 (did someone say telenovela?) that defined homosexual human beings as intrinsically disordered . . . .
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