Keeping Things in Perspective

Millions of people took to the streets on Earth Day to promote science as necessary to save the earth. Nearly 900 million people in the world are undernourished. In Syria, 6 million people have lost their homes; another 4.8 million are refugees who have left the county. In the Vatican City, cardinals are outraged that Pope Francis has said that it might be okay for divorced Catholics to take communion.

Writing in his 2016 “Amoris Laetitia” – if you didn’t study Latin that means “The Joy of Love” – Pope Francis said bishops can use their discretion in allowing Communion for Catholics who have divorced and remarried. A few years earlier the Pope said it was probably all right for Lutherans to receive Communion. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he later surmised that is was not for him to judge if gay people could take communion. To conservative bishops in Germany and the U.S. this is not acceptable and goes against what has been Catholic dogma for centuries. The Church does not recognize divorce and so those who remarry are living in sin.

If you’re like many people, you don’t care.

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