Habeunt Papam!

Poor Andrew Sullivan. His desire for validation of homosexuality has been rejected by the Church again. Why that should matter has never been clear to me. If the Catholics were to start ordaining openly gay men or women after 2,000 years of teaching that homosexual behavior is an abomination and refusing priesthood to women (with some aberrant exceptions), the church would lose far more than it would gain. Would it really make gay men like Andrew happier if the church had bent to his will? Possibly, but I think he would lose all respect for its claims to represent God. Or does he thing the Pope could give orders to God instead of vice versa.

Predictably, the new Pope is getting a lukewarm to cold reception.