Laramie, I hope you realize that Fr. Z is and has been a known compromiser and a liberal, and his answers in your reply demonstrate those facts.
Perhaps. However, such people should not just go about unchallenged.
Today,
he touched a bit on the scandalous things Pope Francis said about contraception and Donald Trump "obsessing" about building a wall against Mexico.
And then he said he was going to open up comments. His specific words were:
The moderation queue is ON. I will cull comments severely. Don’t even bother if you simply want to bash the Pope.
UPDATE: I’ve deleted a lot of comments. Some of them were not bad, but I knew they would just stoke a fire I don’t want burning. The others… some of you lost my respect.
What do you say to that? What can you say? Does he want comments or not?
When I checked in to this blog post of his, there were only four comments up--all of the posts except one was sucking up to him.
So, what really interested me in Fr. Z's conversation was not, exactly, a discussion about Pope Francis. Rather, I was interested in his censorship.
I threw this out there, and it's awaiting moderation. I highly doubt it'll be posted. And if it is posted, I highly doubt it'll be put up and not have bolded red text next to it, passively-aggressively chiding me for dancing around the idea of being rude to the pope, or some such thing.
What can I possibly say, then? I love lamp. Water is delicious. The three primary colors are colorful. How can outrage not be expected?
The pope says these kinds of things. And I am upset by it. I want to talk about it in public spheres, and I could be silenced, labeled, or ostracized.
I have no hope for our world’s future.
Meh. Why obsess over it? Does little crap like this mean anything at all, really?