World Youth Day

The Pope is in Australia for World Youth Day. I offer my prayers up for this to be a blessed event for everyone. I was reading through several of the news reports off the wire. For the most part the coverage is fairly typical; "The Pope has his questions screened", "...sexual abuse scandal...", "the Pope is old...", "the Pope doesn't hang out with the rest of us in the back of the plane". "the Pope wears red shoes". ad. nauseum...

I think the issue is that people try to fit the Pope, (and with him, the Church) in to a tidy little partisan political box. All other world leaders are of some particular political ideology. But the Pope, to most main stream media, is an enigma. One minute he is defending and promoting the traditional model of marriage being reserved to one women and one man. Then he goes and exhorts people to care for the environment and to fight against global warming. It brings about a type of journalistic schizophrenia. So, they try to ignore the things he says which conflict with their secular philosophical sensibilities (or misrepresent and attack them) and concentrate on shouting out to the world that, "EVEN THE POPE PROMOTES ENVIRONMENTALIST ISSUES".

For jounalists it must be like when Charlie Brown's teacher talked. They hear "blah, blah, blah blah whaah whah", when the issue cuts against their grain. Then they're surprised that the Pope actually gets it right when he is on the same side of an issue as them!

Truthfully I would suggest to everyone that when the Pope and you agree on an issue (specifically one that involves faith and morals), that means that you have somehow come to know the truth. When you and the Pope are on opposite sides, you should rethink your position.

You see, the problem isn't that the Pope teaches that certain things are right and wrong, regardless of public opinion (contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual relations...). The problem is that all the other "Popes" don't like the real deal. Some creatures can't stand the light!

HABMUS PAPAM!!