Ask a Catholic

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]However, I'll propose a solution beginning with an analogy: just as a great chef might take great pleasure in preparing food for guests in his restaurant which he himself will never actually eat, so you might take personal satisfaction from the pleasure that you give to him. [...]

That's a retarded analogy. Having worked in a number of top-quality restaurants in London over the past 15 years, I can tell you, that all good chefs eat their own food. It's called "tasting". If you can't taste, you can't be a "great chef", or indeed - a chef at all.

You know what helps, when making a useful, accurate analogy? Knowing what you're talking about.

[vorlon13]

Looks like the Pope might forgive women who've had abortions if they can hold on till the upcoming holy year.

I'm getting that heresy vibe again, what's up with this slacker pope ?

[abaris]

I'm getting that heresy vibe again, what's up with this slacker pope ?

He's trying to move that old shipwreck into calmer seas of popularity. He certainly got the memo of the dogmatic stances not being popular in the Western world, especially in Europe.

[FatAndFaithless]

I don't understand why people still try to paint this Pope as some revolutionary. He's just restating Catholic catechism with a better PR director. Forgiving women who have had abortions was/is already possible/permissible.

[abaris]

I don't understand why people still try to paint this Pope as some revolutionary.

No, I certainly don't paint him as that at all. But that doesn't change the fact that I support some non dogmatic things he said. Such as striving for more social equality and accepting Climate Change for what it is. I'm not picky in who says the right thing. He's influencial with certain people and might reach groups, who otherwise wouldn't even think about these issues.

[FatAndFaithless]

I don't understand why people still try to paint this Pope as some revolutionary.

No, I certainly don't paint him as that at all. But that doesn't change the fact that I support some non dogmatic things he said. Such as striving for more social equality and accepting Climate Change for what it is. I'm not picky in who says the right thing. He's influencial with certain people and might reach groups, who otherwise wouldn't even think about these issues.

I'm all on board for him being less dogmatic and more reasonable, but I'm talking about the media's apparent hard-on for Pope Frank where everything he says is some massive reform or leap forward for the church.  And the whole idea of helping the poor and social equality (and even climate change) have been in the Vatican long before Pope Francis.  Just irritates me when otherwise skeptical people (including many atheists I know) buy into this myth of Francis being a super radical progressive.

[downbeatplumb]

I just noticed your signature rexbeccarox.

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"

Did you find it scratched at the bottom of a cupboard somewhere?

A fan of the late great Terry Pratchett perhaps.

No that was "nil illigitium carborundum" Which I think equates to the same thing in latin.

[rexbeccarox]

I just noticed your signature rexbeccarox.

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"

Did you find it scratched at the bottom of a cupboard somewhere?

A fan of the late great Terry Pratchett perhaps.

No that was "nil illigitium carborundum" Which I think equates to the same thing in latin.

It's a theme from Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

[I_am_not_mafia]

The wikipedia page for the phrase has a myriad of different variations depending on where it appears in literature.

I don't remember it in Terry Pratchett.

[rexbeccarox]

The wikipedia page for the phrase has a myriad of different variations depending on where it appears in literature.

I don't remember it in Terry Pratchett.

As written in my sig, the only attribution is Margaret Atwood, as far as I can tell.