Vatican sex
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/at-vatican-synod-outreach-pushback-and-stuggles-over-soul-of-the-church/2015/10/22/6da0a5c6-71b9-11e5-ba14-318f8e87a2fc_story.html
The Post reports "a senior conservative bishop [at the Synod] took the floor inside the Vatican’s assembly hall and promptly charged his liberal peers with doing the devil’s* work."
It called the Synod a "theological slugfest over Pope Francis’s vision of a more-inclusive church," reporting this week's Rome meeting "has displayed the most bitter and public infighting since the heady days of Catholic reform in the 1960s."
The Post bluntly decried "pushback by traditionalists [which] has been so strong that the chances of fast changes on contentious family issues - whether to offer Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics or to craft more-welcoming language for gays and lesbians - have substantially dimmed, if not died."
De-fucking-pressing!
Coincidentally, I just saw a great reblog on Tumblr --http://ultradevi2.tumblr.com/post/131749771784/justine-love-this-portuguese-language-no-doubt (Allow me to translate the Portuguese tumblr [no doubt from my long-ago Brazilian sisters]: “some shit was SUCH shit that it’s too soon to BE shit again.”) Murky -- but I can imagine it’s about sexual mores (gay rights being trampled, etc.) and Brazilians' liberal take on sexuality. I don't KNOW that it's about the Synod, but it sounds right.
And it inspired me to write this post.
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* Per the Post, "Archbishop Tomash Peta of Kazakhstan captured the magnitude of the divide, raising eyebrows - and a few incredulous laughs - as he decried some of the policy changes floated at the meeting as having the scent of 'infernal smoke'...” C'mon -- it's goddamned KAZAKHSTAN!
** Another t-word I like for describing hidebound assholes is "troglodytes" -- we're talking Jurassic Park, people I checked my sense of the word, finding in the always-fun Urban Dictionary an apt NEW definition for "troglodyte girls" (sic!): "sexy girls that know what they want & what their morals are, sometimes referred to as old fashion[ed...who aspire to marry into] the upper class or [someone] they think is more desirable in their social circles. Also not willing to do just anything, a troglodyte bitch would rather spend their Friday night at home [rather] than at a 'lame' party."
The Post reports "a senior conservative bishop [at the Synod] took the floor inside the Vatican’s assembly hall and promptly charged his liberal peers with doing the devil’s* work."
It called the Synod a "theological slugfest over Pope Francis’s vision of a more-inclusive church," reporting this week's Rome meeting "has displayed the most bitter and public infighting since the heady days of Catholic reform in the 1960s."
The Post bluntly decried "pushback by traditionalists [which] has been so strong that the chances of fast changes on contentious family issues - whether to offer Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics or to craft more-welcoming language for gays and lesbians - have substantially dimmed, if not died."
De-fucking-pressing!
Coincidentally, I just saw a great reblog on Tumblr --http://ultradevi2.tumblr.com/post/131749771784/justine-love-this-portuguese-language-no-doubt (Allow me to translate the Portuguese tumblr [no doubt from my long-ago Brazilian sisters]: “some shit was SUCH shit that it’s too soon to BE shit again.”) Murky -- but I can imagine it’s about sexual mores (gay rights being trampled, etc.) and Brazilians' liberal take on sexuality. I don't KNOW that it's about the Synod, but it sounds right.
And it inspired me to write this post.
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* Per the Post, "Archbishop Tomash Peta of Kazakhstan captured the magnitude of the divide, raising eyebrows - and a few incredulous laughs - as he decried some of the policy changes floated at the meeting as having the scent of 'infernal smoke'...” C'mon -- it's goddamned KAZAKHSTAN!
** Another t-word I like for describing hidebound assholes is "troglodytes" -- we're talking Jurassic Park, people I checked my sense of the word, finding in the always-fun Urban Dictionary an apt NEW definition for "troglodyte girls" (sic!): "sexy girls that know what they want & what their morals are, sometimes referred to as old fashion[ed...who aspire to marry into] the upper class or [someone] they think is more desirable in their social circles. Also not willing to do just anything, a troglodyte bitch would rather spend their Friday night at home [rather] than at a 'lame' party."