On The Notion of Welcoming A Pilgrim Pope
Or some bullshit like that...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0902/1224303347904.html
Neither the current Pope nor John Waters know anything of modern Irish society. They seem to believe that if they keep on denying the corruption at the core of the Catholic Church and keep on claiming that the repeated (and ongoing) child abuse was not as is not know at the highest levels that people might forget. They seem to genuinely think that devotion to this group of misogynistic, bigoted, hateful men (in godawfully stupid dresses and hats) will somehow make everything better.
Waters wants to go back to a time when nobody was allowed to question, nobody was allowed to think. When the parish priest was the ultimate authority and whatever the Catholic Church said, went. We are long past that time and I truly believe things will only get better in that regard.
Of course, he has every right to express his opinion, as long as he accepts that, thankfully, most people will think his opinion is bullshit. Welcome a pilgrim pope? Inform him that the country his minions pillaged does not welcome him, not now, not ever.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0902/1224303347904.html
Neither the current Pope nor John Waters know anything of modern Irish society. They seem to believe that if they keep on denying the corruption at the core of the Catholic Church and keep on claiming that the repeated (and ongoing) child abuse was not as is not know at the highest levels that people might forget. They seem to genuinely think that devotion to this group of misogynistic, bigoted, hateful men (in godawfully stupid dresses and hats) will somehow make everything better.
Waters wants to go back to a time when nobody was allowed to question, nobody was allowed to think. When the parish priest was the ultimate authority and whatever the Catholic Church said, went. We are long past that time and I truly believe things will only get better in that regard.
Of course, he has every right to express his opinion, as long as he accepts that, thankfully, most people will think his opinion is bullshit. Welcome a pilgrim pope? Inform him that the country his minions pillaged does not welcome him, not now, not ever.