I grew up about as Catholic as was possible in the late 20th Century without having been child-raped by a priest. So I didn't get the full treatment. Which is a bit of a blow to the ego. As a kid I was fucking cute. Jesus, Father, who did I have to blow to get asked to blow a Father anyhow? Jeez.
I don't complain about growing up Catholic. (I wasn't raped, see. Optimism: I was the kid not even half-raped.) Growing up Catholic helped me to understand certain things that would have been otherwise inexplicable.
But on the other hand, I love my children, and I see absolutely no reason to subject them to the vicious horseshit that the Catholic Church now gleefully spouts. Or the child rape.
I'm bitter about this, though. The two best people I will ever know or have known are my mom, and my father in law. My mom went into the homes of dying people in NYC and helped them navigate the weird healthcare system that we have evolved so that poor people die bewildered and Paris Hilton keeps all her dough. My FIL builds houses for the rural poor. Roman Irish Catholics to the bone, both of them.
Catholicism truly can inspire very gifted people to give their all in service to the neediest among us.
But it can also inspire authoritarian assholes to act like utter shits. Neither my mom nor my FIL ever really got very much love from Catholic Central, see. The way my mom was treated by the official church makes me want to punch puppies.
So then there is this bullshit.
The Vatican is making a serious effort to find a way for the SSPX group of Traditionalists to rejoin the main body of Catholics. At the meeting in Rome today, Cardinal Levada presented the SSPX leaders with a list of core teachings they must accept in order to be reintegrated — but left what the AP is describing as “wiggle room” on the interpretation of certain aspects of Vatican policy that the SSPX objects to.
Who the FUCK are the SSPX? These assholes.
WE NEED TO HATE MORE GAYS, OPPRESS MORE WOMEN, AND RAPE MORE KIDS.
Reassert Authority.
There's a lot of poor people.
Oh wait let's attack Vatican II.
Fuck you.
Let's allow the child-rape apologists to be in charge, while my mom, who only cared for the welfare of the dying, got bombarded with endless procedural doctrinal shit, & got shat upon in her personal life for her being a woman-i-ness.
Fuck you, Pope.