If the buffoonish Richard Williamson’s easily refutable views on the Holocaust (never mind his objection to The Sound of Music because it depicts a nun running away to marry a rich man) must be recanted in order for him to be admitted to communion with the Petrine See, then so must be the easily refutable views of those buffoons who claim that Pius XII was complicit in the Holocaust. Or that the present Pope was a Nazi.
Or that the Spanish Inquisition was either an institution of the Church or committed all manner of atrocities, and those against Catholic and non-Catholic alike. Or that any noticeable amount of sexual abuse by Catholic priests has been other than of teenage boys, a pattern of behaviour glorified in the mass media and so presumably incurring no social disapproval among the people who run those media.
Or that Opus Dei is some vast global conspiracy. Or that Catholic Teaching precludes the prevention of HIV infection in Africa and elsewhere. Or that Natural Family Planning does not work. Or that the preborn child is ever both a part of a woman’s body and insentient (think on that one).
That would be a start, anyway.
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How many of those buffoons want admission to communion with the Petrine See?
ReplyDeleteIf they think that the current Pope is a Nazi, that a former one aided the Holocaust,that Opus Dei is a vast conspiracy, that the Spanish Inquisition reflects poorly on the church and that abortion is not a sin, they're probably not that concerned with whether they're allowed to be Catholics or not.
Oh, if only you were right.
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