When Pope Benedict XVI stopped by to bless New York City during his visitation to bless Bush's America, he celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. One of those who availed himself of the opportunity to eat Jesus' body and drink Jesus' blood was the former mayor of the Big Apple, Rudy Giuliani.So what, you ask? Well the Catholic Cardinal in New York City is Edward Egan. He says he and Guiliani had a deal: The Cardinal wouldn't consign his soul to hell for his support of abortion if Rudy would refrain from eating Jesus' body and drinking Jesus' blood in Catholic churches. That's not really what the Cardinal said, but that's what he meant, for all practical purposes.
You have to understand that from the point of view of very important and high-up hierarchs like Cardinal Egan, "abortion is a grave offense against the will of God." How does the Cardinal know that? He and all important and high-up Catholic poohbahs, including the pope, happen to have a direct pipeline to the Almighty and She told them about abortion and other stuff.
Egan's pissed. Rudy ain't talking. But then Rudy's got another problem: He's enjoying his third marriage and while he got the first one annulled [because he and his first wife were second cousins once removed - oh, stop laughing!] he somehow neglected to get an annulment from the second, and not only that but he carried on with the woman who is his present wife long before he got rid of his second wife.
The whole thing is a mess and creates a real problem for Cardinals like Egan who have to carry the burden of knowing the will of the Almighty on just about everything, but especially about sex and sexual things. It's probably a good thing the Almighty tells them about sex, 'cause they're celibates sometimes.
Maybe she forgot to tell them about men who abuse little kids, though, and that's why Cardinals and Bishops and other Catholic poohbahs did nothing for so long about the predator priests in their midsts. Well, they did shuffle them into other parishes. That might count for something.
But you'd think that New York City has some serious problems other than sex that the Cardinal might reference with his wisdom from the Almighty.
Or not. Maybe She just has a thing about sex.
1 comment:
Stop being obsessed with sex, my friend. Apparently God isn’t. If God were, do you think Rudy and others like him would go unpunished for so flagrantly disobeying all the rules? I suspect that God is not talking to all those that claim to have a direct line. When God can throw a lightening bolt with dead aim, why would God allow so many to break the rules? I think God has not made all those rules. The first five books of the Bible have lots of rules. After God wrote them, the rest were “told” by the various “authors”. God did not write them, I am told. It is possible that between errors in various translations, changes due to politics, failing memories, politics etc, that mistakes were made. When God is ready to do an updated edition, it will be done. Until then be careful of whom you believe is telling the truth about conversations with God. As far as I know, only the Ten Commandments were actuality written by God. Since then, it has been all second hand stories. Cecille B. De Mille tried to make movies about God and God’s works but never claimed God had written them.
Please note I made no reference to the sexual identity of God. I simply do not know.
Bob Poris
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