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The old joke when something seemed to be self-evident: "Is the Pope Catholic?" The correct answer would now seem to be "No".
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No, He is a Jesuit.
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But does he relieve himself in the woods?
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"Is the Pope Communist?"
This kind of pandering had me leave right around the second Ecumenical Council. After being told by spiritually rabid nuns in the sixties that certain things were worthy of eternal condemnation ( or eternal deprivation of ‘heaven’ in Purgatory or Limbo) and then have them summarily removed by the big boys in the Vatican was astonishing to a 14 year-old who’d studied Latin and performed altar boy duties.
Then after my first Guitar Mass, I was out.
Perhaps the Pontiff saw the leaked pictures of the glorious romance and act of love exhibited in the Senate Chambers at our nations Capitol, and saw how two people in “irregular situations” could be in genuine love and was moved to act?
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