The Sweet Taste of Powerlessness
The beautiful thing about the coming election - the election of a new pope - is we don't have to do a thing a single thing except pray. We don't have to knock on doors to persuade people to vote for our candidate, or donate money to a campaign, or endure misleading television ads, or write letters to the editor. The College of Cardinals are immune to pressure of Sixty Minutes. The Holy Spirit even more so, who will take care of it all. It feels so....restful.
And what of those who worry that the Church will split if the new pontiff doesn't allow women or married priests or gay marriage? Then, que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be. I'm going down with the barque! There's nothing so heady as a lost cause, especially one in which we know the cause is not lost but has already been won!
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