“…As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated…”continue at The Moynihan Letters
–T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, East Coker
The Witnesses
Last night, my phone rang twice, just before 3 in the morning. In the morning, I found three emails from the same person, a priest I know. He called again this morning.
He wanted to know about my letter of yesterday, which discussed an Italian press report that the Pope has received information that his Curia is riven with factions, and that this was part of the reason he decided to step down from the papacy.
“What are you doing?” the priest asked me, excitedly. “Do you really have evidence of what you are writing? And why did you put those photos in, the photos of Simeon, and Balestrero, and Bruelhart? Are you suggesting they were involved somehow in this? Are you accusing them? That’s what it looks like. I’ve been getting calls and emails from all over the world. Most people were dismissing this as typical mud-slinging without any foundation, another attack on the Church, false. But now that you have written it, because you are respected, people are wondering what the truth is. What is the truth?”
“I was primarily just reporting what is appearing in the Italian press,” I said. “I put the photos in because they were the photos in the article in La Repubblica.”
It looks like some commenters don't think I am praying for the Cardinals and the Church. Following Vatican news and praying for the Church are not mutually exclusive activities.
3 comments:
Meh. There's little doubt that some of the clergy in the Vatican (high- and low- level) are homosexuals, and that some of them are actively so.
That's 20-year-old "news."
It's possible that "the report" was the trigger for B-16's resignation; but I'll stay with 'failing health and strength'.
BC, you might be interested in some recent statements: http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/deploring-gossip-misinformation-and-sometimes-slander/
Thank you Kat.
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