Will the Pope’s visit to Toronto be crowned with universal success?
This report from Gay Wired about action planned by LGBT and AIDS activists to coincide with World Youth Day indicates that there will at least be SOME sanity during the Holy Father’s visit to Eastern Canada. As one Catholic teacher has commented: “The Catholic Church is also going to use the hype surrounding this event to reinforce sexism within the church and to promote unhealthy, even life-threatening, policies for adolescent sexual health," says Joanna Manning, also a writer and a member of the ‘Challenge the Church: For A Just World Youth Day’ group. The recent revelations of outrages involving Catholic priests in North America, Europe and elsewhere, and the Catholic Church’s reaction to these, all need to be challenged. Naturally, at the same time, one wishes that those devout Catholics hoping to see the Pontiff will enjoy His visit, too.
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