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in general terms, this has as much to do with john paul 2's desire to recreate the olde days of top-down command, in which directives travelled from rome and catholics followed.
which would get rid of the problems associated with the american catholic church in particular... you know.....having diversity of opinion must be irritating if you understand yourself as infallible in spritiual matters.
remember this is the same guy who shut down liberation theology, the only important movement to develop within cathlicism in 200 years, because he thought it communist. this is an absurd, reactionary pope, whose politics follow in kind.
but at least he is consistent: unlike american conservatives, who would endorse this ridiculous canon law suit and ignore john paul's
condemnation of the invasion of iraq
his opposition to the death penalty
and the weak pleas he is in a position to promulgate on the dignity of the poor
(weak because of the silencing of liberation theology)
which would mean that, despite the reactionary nature of john paul 2, at least he is not a hypocrite.
shame you cant say the same about american conservatives--particularly if you keep in mind the protestant fundamentalist core of their constituency, for which cathlocism is not christianity.
a pox on both their houses
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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