What the hell--why not?
Heresy #1. The Pope is losing it. The air of rot and exhaustion we know well from the last Bush years now emanates from the Vatican. The Bishop Williamson affair (he is Holocaust-denying reactionary), the excommunication in Brazil of doctors and a mother for aborting the pregnancy for twins of a 9 year-old raped by her father (even a high ranking Vatican bishop has a problem with that; where was mercy, he asks), and today the Pope in Africa condemning condom use in a land where AIDS has long been an epidemic--all these show a Church without a clue as to what its own people want and will accept.
John Paul II was a great historical figure whose presence kept the lid on many pressure points, but this current Pope is no where near as strong and the band-aids placed on several major wounds over the years are
beginning to snap off. There will be more problems ahead, in fact they will be ceaseless until the Church finally shakes itself free from the dead hand of compromise and corruption.
Heresy #2. More of a question. Is Bernie Madoff in the secret employ of some county's intelligence agencies? Colonel Pat Lang, a retired U.S. Army intelligence pro, asked this the other day on his blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis. Madoff's silence and guilty plea to avert a trial have me relecting on the kinds of people who value--demand--that omerta: organized crime and spy agencies. I doubt that Bernie is mobbed-up but perhaps he is spooked-up. Where did all that money go? $65 billion--who might have a need for that kind of money and, at the same time, keep it off official books? Who runs Bernie? Mossad, CIA?
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Translation of the Pope's message:
Condoms cost money.
Prayers are free.
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