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Post by elalacran on Feb 19, 2012 11:37:00 GMT -5
You mean, the out of touch boy-lovin' gang in robes think they were skewered. Who cares? Quite a few parish priests think liberalization of the vatican is in order.
So you have a hierarchy. There are a multitude of ordinary Catholics, practicing and non-practicing, who are totally out of step with the Vatican on matters like divorce, birth control, abortion, women in the priesthood. Then you have the priesthood who are more conservative, but many of those if they had their druthers would reform Catholicism. Then you have the higher-ups, the bishops, cardinals, Vatican bureaucrats and the pope, who are extremely conservative. A mere handful attempting to control what Catholics over the world believe and practice.
The politics of the Vatican is no different than politics anywhere. A conservative pope stacks the hierarchy with conservative cardinals, ensuring that the next pope will be conservative. Which is what happened. The last liberal pope was in office for one month before he died. Or was murdered.
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