well, duh.
next thing you know, someone will find a CIA is funding the opposition.
if you think American politics is cut throat, just watch the shenanigans here.
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in other news: still awaiting the volcano to blow.
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The Pope's book kerfuffle.
The elites have their "two popes" movie that portrays Benedict as an a..h... and now he goes and writes a book about the priesthood.
Pointing out that a priest is not just a cheerleader or an MC leading a happy pep rally but something more: a man dedicated to God as another Christ. (it's in Paul, by the way).
Andrew Greeley has pointed out years ago that celibacy is not the problem,
no, it's not about celibacy: it's about reform (or rather, re- forming the church into the NWO church of nice).
So what says the present Pope? As late as last year he insisted the wisdom of celibacy but is using the astroturf Amazon synod to change things under the pretense that this was asked for by popular demand: this is gaslighting, of course: spreading confusion, saying one thing and doing another and then denying he said it.
as for popular demand: Most Catholics would allow a married priesthood, because we see the good Protestant pastors who are married.
But a priest is not merely the leader of a service or a preacher: And this book reminds those who came after Vatican II about the deeper implications of the priesthood.
The compelling quality of the priest is ...something much stranger, deeper, and more mystical: the fascination for another world, for that mysterious dimension of existence hinted at sacramentally by the universe here below and revealed to us, however tantalyzingly, in the breaking of the bread.
Such nuances are what we used to have philosophers to explain: nowadays, pop psychology rules, of course.
Father Z posts on it LINK and LINK and has Cardinal Robert Sarah's letter/
The catholic equivalent of the Onion (or the Babylon Bee), Eccles is saved, has a summary here: either Benedict didn't write it or he should shut up.
Eccles has other satires, such as: If Ricky Gervais gave a Vatican press conference and a lot of digs about the paganism and the betrayal of Chinese Catholics.
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StrategyPage has a report on the decline of Islamic terrorism and the opposition to these groups by most Muslims, but also reports the unwillingness of the Europeans to acknowledge they still have terrorist supporters in their midst, including among their "refugees".
In Europe, the unassimilated immigrants don't report these wanna be terrorists (omerta?) because they are rarely prosecuted, but in the USA, where Muslims are better assimilated, they are reported and arrested.
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