From the New York Times section on debate and analysis:
“The Vatican announced on Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans who are uncomfortable with the Church of England’s acceptance of women priests and openly gay bishops to join the Catholic Church. The Vatican will set up a formal conversion structure to allow Anglicans to preserve some of their liturgical traditions, including allowing married Anglican priests to remain married after they convert to Catholicism.
What does this announcement say about the Catholic Church and its willingness to grant such flexibility?”
It is our perspective that by inviting the overtly homophobic and misogynistic Anglicans into the Catholic Church the Vatican is simply declaring a its bankruptcy of spirit. Same old same old.
We were more interested in the news that Joseph Wiseman, the actor who played Dr. No in the first James Bond film has passed away at 91. Mr. Wiseman was a talented actor who disdained his role as Dr. No because he was seriously in love with the stage. Mr. Wiseman took a role in a movie that forever branded him and he’s hardly the first actor to have suffered an ignominious semiotic Hollywood scorching. We hope for him a heaven of thespians and singers.
Meanwhile here on Earth we imagine Dr. Julius No is alive and well in the Vatican.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
And they wonder why their ranks are full of perverts.
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I love the phrase bankruptcy of spirit. The leaders of the Catholic Church have been bankrupt of spirit for decades. I know this from experience. The nuns and priests that I interacted with in Catholic school were contemptible people that literally beat the Catholicism out of me and all my siblings. Long ago I stopped listening or caring what the Vatican had to say. When I feel the need to commune with God I don’t got to church. Instead I read the Bible and avoid those I do not respect but maintain my spirituality.
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