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Related: About this forumIf the Dalai Lama Were Pope
Despite Vatican efforts to keep the public eye focused on pomp and circumstance, speculation about the real reason for Pope Benedicts resignation dominates conversation about the papal succession: Is it the Vatileaks money laundering? Is it the pedophilia scandal? Might it have something to do with criminal charges filed in European courts? How about the impact of all three on Catholic Church coffers and pews? Is this about immunity or power or finances or brand management?
The Vatican claims to promote a comprehensive culture of life, but it is the Churchs comprehensive culture of corruption that refuses to die. Consider yesterdays scandal in which Scottish Cardinal Keith OBrien, resigned amid allegations of sexual contacts with priests. Last year OBrien had called marriage equality a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right. In fact, in 2012, he received a bigot of the year award from the British gay rights group, Stonewall. The combination makes him a poster boy for the notion that homophobia is a symptom of denial. Methinks he doth protest too much.
From the October death of Savita Halappanavar for lack of an abortion in Catholic controlled Ireland, to the pedophilia cover-up being unveiled gradually this spring in California, to the infighting exposed when the Popes butler leaked inside Vatican documents, to Cardinal Timothy Dolans efforts to obstruct contraceptive access regardless of the public health consequencesCatholic priorities increasingly appear to have two products: harm and hypocrisy. Those who still consider the Catholic hierarchy to be a source of moral leadership are living in a fantasy.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14967-if-the-dalai-lama-were-pope
The Vatican claims to promote a comprehensive culture of life, but it is the Churchs comprehensive culture of corruption that refuses to die. Consider yesterdays scandal in which Scottish Cardinal Keith OBrien, resigned amid allegations of sexual contacts with priests. Last year OBrien had called marriage equality a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right. In fact, in 2012, he received a bigot of the year award from the British gay rights group, Stonewall. The combination makes him a poster boy for the notion that homophobia is a symptom of denial. Methinks he doth protest too much.
From the October death of Savita Halappanavar for lack of an abortion in Catholic controlled Ireland, to the pedophilia cover-up being unveiled gradually this spring in California, to the infighting exposed when the Popes butler leaked inside Vatican documents, to Cardinal Timothy Dolans efforts to obstruct contraceptive access regardless of the public health consequencesCatholic priorities increasingly appear to have two products: harm and hypocrisy. Those who still consider the Catholic hierarchy to be a source of moral leadership are living in a fantasy.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14967-if-the-dalai-lama-were-pope
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If the Dalai Lama Were Pope (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Mar 2013
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)1. Good article and a great fantasy.
Even if they made him an advisor, it would be a good thing.
But i fear they are going to keep stumbling down the same road, even though it is going nowhere.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)2. Well at least one thing would stay the same.
The church's anti-LGBT agenda.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)3. The RCC doesn't need an ethereal philosopher in that slot, they need somebody who knows how
to crack heads together.