Do you suppose we'll get some honesty with the new Pope...?

Faithful shout "Long live the pope!" before dawn today in St. Peter's Square.


i used to describe myself as a "recovering catholic" until my catholic education and upbringing seemed so far in the distant past as to be irrelevant...

i suppose i still have a soft spot for catholics (rather than catholicism)... however, catholicism's insistence on sex solely for procreation, condemning contraception and abortion, and generally trying to dictate how one expresses one's inner self seems to me out of touch both with today's realities and the fundamental message of christ in the gospels... then there's the doctrine of infallability, the cult of the virgin, celibacy, complicity with the nazi regime in wwII, sexual abuse by the clergy, hal turner, but, hey...!

the publisher's commentary on the book Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, written by the highly-regarded Northwestern University professor, Garry Wills, himself a devout catholic, spells it out...

"Wills describes a papacy that seems steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself, its past, and its relations with others. The refusal of the authorities of the Church to admit that they could err or do wrong to others has needlessly exacerbated their original mistakes.

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The resulting distrust is in fact a neglected reason for today's shortage of priests. Entirely aside from the public uproar over celibacy, potential clergy have proven unwilling to put themselves in a position in which they must support dishonest teachings.

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Wills shows that the righteous path can still be taken, if only the Vatican will muster the courage to speak even embarrassing truths in the name of Truth itself."


do i expect anything to change under a new papacy...? nah... they've been dug in for over 2000 years and they're not about to change now...

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