Friday, November 19, 2004
Levels of Catholic
In a story in the Daily Telegraph that otherwise was about the UK Independence Party's criticism of France's commissioner Jacques Barrot, lies this odd little paragraph
Memo to fellow Catholics around the world - we still have a lot of work to do.
The fiasco was chiefly caused by Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's ultra-Catholic nominee for justice and civil liberties, who fell foul of the European Left for calling homosexuality a "sin" and disparaging single mothers.Ultra-Catholic? so now it seems there are different levels of Catholicism. So anyone who actually adheres to Church doctrine is an ultra-Catholic? As opposed to what, cafeteria Catholic?
Memo to fellow Catholics around the world - we still have a lot of work to do.