I’m Over You, You’re Under Me

Y'all - the Catholic Church is not only a conservative institution, it is a strong contender for the most conservative institution in the world. I don't say that (here) in a disparaging way, I mean it in a neutral, literal sense. The Church's entire modus operandi is that it seeks to conserve what it believes to be apostolic teaching - disciplines, practices, and prudential judgements vary across place and time, but the teachings themselves never ever change. Hailing the Pope or a bishop as some kind of progressive icon is nonsensical, and is hard for me to see as anything other than a very worrying sign of the reactionary period we're living in.

The President of the United States is to the right of the head of the most conservative institution in the world (the Pope) and instead of viewing that as an extremely worrying sign of the reactionary period we're in, people have decided the Pope and the Church are progressive

let's not forget that the catholic church threatened to torture galileo in 1633 if he didn't retract his theory that the earth revolved around the sun, and they didn't admit he was right until 1992. if you're in doubt about how conservative the catholic church is, just remember that they refused to admit a scientific fact we've known about our planet for centuries until over two decades after people first walked on the moon

somewhere inside the jackles is a tiny dean screaming

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder