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This is what is known as "throwing them a bone".

Catholic bishops in 'seismic' opening toward gays

Seismic.

Really?

Come on fellas. Half of you are gay yourselves. Surely you can come up with something a little less cringeworthy than that.

The Church (they like to be capitalized so I will throw a bone back) is regressive. Or is it retrogressive?

This pope may not be "as bad" as previous ones but he is still a guy who knows nothing about the real lives of real people who do things like divorce, have relationships with others of the same gender or whatever else is on their lists. Pious fools.

Remote from the universe of daily life.

Somehow when a "good" pope comes along people are all agog and good press ensues. Remember the John that was similar? A little of a nice guy then a little of a real prick and so you have it. Back and forth.

I am so out of the stream of religious life and thinking that I just find this stuff all quite bizarre. Do folks really care what the pope thinks or does?

I used to sympathize with liberal catholics who had to put up with this kind of shit but no longer. If they get burned and still stand next to the fire then so be it. I don't mean the fire of the metaphorical hell. I mean the hell of the universal church.

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