the Pope mixing up words, and rigidity in priests
There is a minor kerfuffle (including on Drudge but also elsewhere) that the Pope compared "fake news" reports to a fetish of eating excrement.
The kerfuffle is actually an example of what he is talking about, but also an example of the Pope's problem with language in his "off the cuff remarks".
I believe the word he wanted to use was Corprolalia,
Coprolalia is the medical term used to describe one of the most puzzling and socially stigmatizing symptoms of Tourette Syndrome—the involuntary outburst of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks.
Like the "Who am I to judge" remark, which was not about not judging homosexual acts but about judging a penitent priest who was now trying to live according to God's rule, it will make headlines by those willing to distort the remark and twist it to their own end, instead of putting it in context so that the subject rather than the remark can be discussed: In this case, the negative spin and poor reporting, in the Who am I to judge, the subject if all sin can be repented and forgiven by Christ.
Another smaller kerfuffle is that the guidelines from the Vatican will continue to bar gays living the homosexual lifestyle or supporting the homosexual lifestyle from the seminary.
This was released shortly after another report advised seminaries to weed out those who were "rigid". This could mean what it says: psychological rigidity. But in recent post Vatican II years, it often was the excuse used to throw out the pious who actually prayed and believed, especially in seminaries where a gay subculture was not rooted out.
There has been a major press whiteout about reporting what actually goes on in the homosexual lifestyle, or about the problem of same sex attraction in places of close contact such as seminaries, schools and the military. A person who "approves" of these activities will not make a good priest, any more than a priest who winks at adultary or winks at drug/alcohol abuse, or wife beating, or taking brribes and kickbacks, or abortion.
There is a difference between caring for the sinner, and winking at the sin and being a co-enabler of it.
We docs have to walk this line all the time: I would be wrong not to judge cigarette smoking, or promiscuity, or drug use as wrong. That doesn't mean I don't treat the patient, and then advise him or her how to straighten out their bad health habits.
A gay man in the ministry can become a very holy priest, but given recent history, the church is right to be cautious again.
The kerfuffle is actually an example of what he is talking about, but also an example of the Pope's problem with language in his "off the cuff remarks".
I believe the word he wanted to use was Corprolalia,
Coprolalia is the medical term used to describe one of the most puzzling and socially stigmatizing symptoms of Tourette Syndrome—the involuntary outburst of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks.
Like the "Who am I to judge" remark, which was not about not judging homosexual acts but about judging a penitent priest who was now trying to live according to God's rule, it will make headlines by those willing to distort the remark and twist it to their own end, instead of putting it in context so that the subject rather than the remark can be discussed: In this case, the negative spin and poor reporting, in the Who am I to judge, the subject if all sin can be repented and forgiven by Christ.
Another smaller kerfuffle is that the guidelines from the Vatican will continue to bar gays living the homosexual lifestyle or supporting the homosexual lifestyle from the seminary.
This was released shortly after another report advised seminaries to weed out those who were "rigid". This could mean what it says: psychological rigidity. But in recent post Vatican II years, it often was the excuse used to throw out the pious who actually prayed and believed, especially in seminaries where a gay subculture was not rooted out.
There has been a major press whiteout about reporting what actually goes on in the homosexual lifestyle, or about the problem of same sex attraction in places of close contact such as seminaries, schools and the military. A person who "approves" of these activities will not make a good priest, any more than a priest who winks at adultary or winks at drug/alcohol abuse, or wife beating, or taking brribes and kickbacks, or abortion.
There is a difference between caring for the sinner, and winking at the sin and being a co-enabler of it.
We docs have to walk this line all the time: I would be wrong not to judge cigarette smoking, or promiscuity, or drug use as wrong. That doesn't mean I don't treat the patient, and then advise him or her how to straighten out their bad health habits.
A gay man in the ministry can become a very holy priest, but given recent history, the church is right to be cautious again.
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