The fallout from Pope Francis’ remarks to the Italian bishops rumbles on. This is in part because his words have defeated the efforts of both progressives and conservatives to understand why the Pope should have used the language he did to make the point he made.
Perhaps we are served better by reflecting on what we can know instead of what we can’t? What has become more evident in the wake of them is the merciless fury of the rainbow lobby for those who transgress.
This raises the wider question of what the Catholic Church has been dealing with as it set out from the beginnings of the Second Vatican Council to build a bridge of better mutual understanding across the chasm of modernity.
