My apologies to any Catholic readers of my blog, but the Pope really does need to engage his brain before putting his mouth in gear (a saying my Mum used to say to me a lot).
At the end of his four day visit to Portugal Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Catholic faithful during the traditional 13th May annual mass at Fatima's Sanctuary.
Addressing the huge crowd at the shrine of Fatima, Pope Benedict said that same sex marriage and abortion were among the
"most insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good."In his strongly worded attack, Pope Benedict also insisted that marriage should be founded on the "indissoluble" marriage between a man and a woman.
Now, let us see what indissoluble actually means;
–adjective
1. not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
2. firm or stable.
3. perpetually binding or obligatory.
Okay, now I really do see that Pope Benedict has lost the plot, number one alone shows you it is pish as so many marriages collapse, end up in divorce or just fade apart and number two can just as easily apply to a gay relationship as it could a straight relationship. My partner and I are celebrating our 18th anniversary this year.
When you and your speech writers sat there last week writing your speech for your Portugal visit did you write this speech against abortion and gay people to try and move the agenda from your own problems within the Church and try and create anger amongst Catholics once again, but not aimed at you and your Church but instead at others.
Others who have done nothing wrong.
I am pleased that you and the Vatican have finally started to act against those within your organisation who preyed on children but I urge you to re-think your policies and beliefs about condoms.
Instead of visiting Britain later this year (where I will be protesting at your visit) I urge you to go to Africa instead, go and visit the millions dying of AIDS, look those people in the eye as they lie dying in their beds and try and persuade them to understand why you are against condoms so much?
But you won't will you, why bother when no one will bother to listen to your outdated views.
Pope Benedict's visit to Portugal is somewhat ironic - a law allowing same-sex marriage was passed by parliament in February. President Anibal Silva, himself a practising Catholic, is expected to sign the bill into law by May 17, just three days after the end of the papal visit.
The ratification by President Silva would make Portugal the sixth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriages after Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Norway.
In Britain, same sex marriage is not legal, but since 2005 homosexual couples have been allowed to enter into civil partnerships, which carry the same rights and responsibilities as marriage.
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Aye Andrew, the man's a bampot right enough, an' he's daein' the Catholic Church nae favours spillin' his bile aw ower the shop like he does. Of course, it's aw diversionary. He disnae want tae address the Church's failin's, an' they are legion. He wad raither point his wee fat fingers this way an' that, seekin' oot the vulnerable in society, an' layin' aw the blame at somebody else's door. An' tae be honest, ah'm no sure the Church has even startit tae deal wi' their ain manifest problems.
The very idea o' twa folk committin' tae each other bein' a dangerous an' insidious challenge tae society just shows ye that the man's no aw there.
Ah'll probably see ye at the demonstrations in September, but then, ah'm hopin' that might be difficult oan account o' the thoosans an' thoosans o' ma fellae Scots that'll be there tae.
An' if we make enough noise aforehand, he might no even turn up.
What's really mince about this is that the Catholic Church can (and has) sanction a divorce - so does that make the bishops / Popes who did this a "dangerous and insidious challenge to society" too?
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