There's been plenty of coverage, particularly on the BBC, of the beginning of the process to elect the new pope. However it's spun, though, the outcome is inevitable - Ratzinger will be replaced by another vile reactionary, espousing the same creed of repression and inequality, misogyny and homophobia, quite content to allow their adherents to breed themselves into poverty and die of preventable diseases, all in the name of their rapacious Bronze Age deity. And, of course, to maintain their own unearned and completely unjustified power and privilege.
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
I love that one of the old farts lives over a gay spa in Rome! Pretty funny!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, you're right.
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Jay
Hello Jay
ReplyDeleteI saw the gay sauna story - the version of it I saw said that not only a cardinal, but numerous other highly-placed members of the Vatican hierocracy live in the apartments above it, and, most amusingly, at least in a schadenfreude sense, the Vatican actually own the building! It would ill-become me, of all people, to say that they wouldn't consider it a problem because all of the clientele of the sauna would be too old for the tastes of any of the residents, but I'm sure others wouldn't hesitate to say such a thing.
More seriously, though, the idea of 'business as usual' in the Catholic Church, as I said in the wake of Ratzinger's resignation, is a thoroughly unpalatable one. The whole rotten organisation needs to change, change which I have no doubt will completely fail to occur.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B