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April 18, 2005
Smoke Signals
So JP2 has now been laid to rest and the world now waits for a plume of white smoke. It's a historic moment this choosing of a pope. I'm watching with the rest of the world in fascination and curiosity at this Pope and circumstance. Part of me has hope that this pope will make a change. Embrace true spirutality and cast the "business of God" aside. The reality is whomever is chosen will most likely be as conservative and mysogynistic as the previous pope. I wish I wasn't so jaded about it all. The problems that plague the American Catholic are vastly different from those that plague the African one and the church seems content to accept that not all problems can be addressed. Last week, an indicted priest said mass in Rome adoring a fallen pope while thousands of Priest-abuse victims suffer his church-sponsored freedom.
I was out with Pru this weekend and she has taken a less reverent attitude.
I'm suddenly inclined to not only have premarital sex, but to do it with contraception. I find myself drawn towards good wine that wasn't blessed and easily led astray by the lascivious and prurient. It must be the lack of leadership for my soul; I am rudderless without a pope.
Cheeky and irreverent and a great excuse to do alot of things. In the end, like Pru, I feel rudderless. I am a ship at sail in a dark blue ocean crested with white and questions; rudderless. Sadly, I do not believe that the other end of that plume of white smoke will guide me safely to shore.
Posted by mermu at April 18, 2005 02:09 PM
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