I'm seeing and hearing a fair number of liberal/progressive types continue to advocate "change." Does this mean they think we need a new president, as it did four years ago?
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Yesterday a nice Irish lady I met on the camino put up on her FB a TV documentary called ‘Turbulent Priest’. It was about some Irish priest who was shown doing nice pastoral stuff like blessing people’s cars, and who has now been ordered to be silent after writing a piece in an Irish newspaper criticising the teaching of the church on sexual morality, gay marriage and clerical celibacy. This morning I was talking to the woman and she asked me if I’d seen it. I had to say, ‘not my cup of tea, actually.’
I watched about ten minutes and my main response was annoyance that this priest had allowed himself to be used in the war of ‘the culture’ (in this case incarnated as public TV) on the church.
I don’t think I used to think the culture was at war with the Church, and my response to a movie eulogising a way out priest might have been irritation with the priest, but not for the reason that he was letting himself be used to whip the church with.
I think it is homosexuality which has really set the two cultures at odds. In Englnd, the Catholic adoption agencies which won’t let gays adopt have been closed. -
In this country, it was abortion first. Now homosexuality has become an equally intense point of contention. I really try not to get carried away about the culture war thing, but it’s a fact of life that we can’t completely escape.
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I meant to put that comment in response to your piece ‘Who is to be Master’ – don’t know how I managed to get it here instead.
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Oh. I didn’t really notice it being out of place, since this post is about the election, too, and your comment is at least implicitly related to that.
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