[Mad Dawg]

You know, Catholic or non-Catholic ... There are other choices, like for instance, “Bad Catholic.”

For me, I came home during J2P2. I like PapaBenXVI very much.

But PapaFran is hard for me. It's like a difficult grandparent. Love and piety urge us to place the kindest interpretation on what they say and do, and it's good penance to love where loving is hard.

But even if there is, in the schema of eternity a kind of Lobachevskian “ultra-ideal point” at which, we can speculate, things which never can meet finally meet, still it is hard to reconcile what PapaFran says with what Our Lord says about damnation.

J2P2 speculated that there might be somesuch final ingathering. IIRC he balked at thinking of God “giving up” on some. But when PapaFran says damnation does not comport with the logic of the Gospel ... well, I think I see what he means, but I would not have said it like that.

But, after two decades or so as a Catholic, I feel that I was due a difficult Pope.

[ebb tide]

You know, Catholic or non-Catholic ... There are other choices, like for instance, “Bad Catholic.”

"Bad Catholic" as opposed to perfect "Sinless Catholic"?

All Catholics are bad when they sin.