tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post7279224410614840539..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: Pope Francis reminds me of GorbachevDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-64489955868848537442013-12-03T16:13:10.389+01:002013-12-03T16:13:10.389+01:00During the last heyday of positive Catholic fermen...During the last heyday of positive Catholic ferment in the 1960s, liberation theologians could hold hands with the bishops and the world seemed safe for guitar masses. Then reality struck. Recreational sex was a big rock in the middle of the road along with gender and sexual identity. To be sure, the culture was changing and the priests and nuns were coming out of the closet. But an ancient institution doesn't simply give up its own history. It can't because that's its only claim to legitimacy. Indeed, once you peel back the curtain, what is there? It was great theater but the Roman Catholic Church is not going to retool the script for another 2000-year run. In the meantime, let the Opus Dei zealots have their fun. It will be gone soon enough. walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06221959390644542667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-56913448632623885582013-11-30T12:28:27.650+01:002013-11-30T12:28:27.650+01:00Interesting post. I really like your thinking abou...Interesting post. I really like your thinking about the pill as sacrament. It goes hand-in-hand with the condemnation of trickle-down capitalism in terms of quality of life for the living when seen in the context of population explosion and its ramifications for the pressures it brings to bear on the planet, or rather our place on the planet. I agree that the Vatican is terminally lost, thus marginalised in our era vis à vis women, but were Il Papa to hammer away at the disgrace of society's tolerance of poverty and the suffering it brings to much of humanity, he might just give the expression "right-to-life" the meaning it should carry. He would have to be relentless, though, and see a war on the liberal economic model as the legacy of his papacy. Liberation theology is what its called in his neck of the Americas.stuntednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-13356475264823693352013-11-28T22:54:11.234+01:002013-11-28T22:54:11.234+01:00Donning the Shoes of the Fisherman against the 1% ...Donning the Shoes of the Fisherman against the 1% dons and DONALD$ !<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com