You know, I never know what to do with my weblog anymore. There’s really no time to post regularly, but I don’t want to just dump it entirely. Then there’s the damn trackback spam. I just deleted most of my old posts just to get rid of it. Getting 100+ of them a day is just not fun at all.
Then JPII died, and I know I’m glad I have this spot to go to and post something, if I want.
I have always admired him and loved him, but when I saw that plain box he was in at his funeral, that he was leaving the earth became really painful. I know he’s in a wonderful place, and I would not wish him back for more suffering, but we are going to miss his goodness and kind face. No one is perfect, and there is much that I wish he had done and addressed, but his pontificate was so full of so much good, it seems small to just point out the things he didn’t get to or the things that he didn’t do so well on at the end of his life when he was sick.
What is harder to take is listening to the news channels finding every Catholic dissident out there wax on about how now maybe we can have women priests now, perhaps the church will reconsider their stand on abortion and contraception.
Just stop it. The Catholic Church is that, and it is more likely that our wax wings will hold up on a trip around the sun than the church ordaining women as priests or saying abortion is okay if you just do it quick enough. If they did that, they would cease to be the Catholic Church. There simple has to be in this world one outpost of moral certitude (even if there is much disagreemtn) that never changes.
2000 years have passed with very little change, and here’s one reason why. I think it was the Montanists way back in the 300s or 400s that had the same problem moral progressives have now — failure to reproduce in adequate replacement-plus quantities means your brand of theology will die out.
But if you do embrace creation of life and all that brings — large, messy families with not enough money and not enough time, but lots of humanity — you very quickly stop being a moral progressive.
