It won't do anything for them, but if they put the church in a situation of crisis, Benedict's gonna have to do something. And it might go their way...who knows.
I hope so. Very much. Although Benedict's not famed for being a flexible mediator. I don't think that "diplomatic and even-minded" even entered the Cardinals' minds.
1. My pastor used to be an abbot, and he said some of the things the nuns confessed to doing with each other, and with little girls...wouldn't be surprised if they're more into it than the priests are. 2. I know of at least two heterosexual priests: one of my ancestors, way back like 400 years ago or something, was the pope and had 13 illegitimate children, and my mom's priest growing up had like 5 "nieces and nephews" that lived with his "sister" in the house next to the rectory.
One of the attributes of Benedict not mentioned is that he will die soon, and there will be another new pope in less than twenty-something years.
But the Catholic church will take its sweet time to change. It sure looked like it would move out of the Middle Ages at some point in the 60's or 70's, but then it ended up not-- John Paul actually played a big role in keeping up that conservatism. My mom stayed Catholic for a while figuring that the church would modernize, but it didn't. First she gave up on it internally, and eventually at some meeting on the role of women in the church attended by bishops and such, she went up, related her story, and then told them that she had decided she wasn't Catholic anymore. It's easier to go around an enormous 2000-year-old rock than to try to (or even wait for it to) move.
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I'm just a bitter old woman.
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Priests ARE gay. I'm not kidding.
And nuns? Come on now.
I'd be willing to bet anyone the Roman Catholic church is second only to the military in the number of homosexuals it employs in the United States.
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2. I know of at least two heterosexual priests: one of my ancestors, way back like 400 years ago or something, was the pope and had 13 illegitimate children, and my mom's priest growing up had like 5 "nieces and nephews" that lived with his "sister" in the house next to the rectory.
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But the Catholic church will take its sweet time to change. It sure looked like it would move out of the Middle Ages at some point in the 60's or 70's, but then it ended up not-- John Paul actually played a big role in keeping up that conservatism. My mom stayed Catholic for a while figuring that the church would modernize, but it didn't. First she gave up on it internally, and eventually at some meeting on the role of women in the church attended by bishops and such, she went up, related her story, and then told them that she had decided she wasn't Catholic anymore. It's easier to go around an enormous 2000-year-old rock than to try to (or even wait for it to) move.
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