Since religion is such a hot topic currently, at least the
Catholic Religion is, I was interested in an article written by Maureen Dowd of
the New York Times titled: HOW MARY FEELS ABOUT BEING A VIRGIN.
It has to do with Irish author COLM TOIBIN who writes a lot
about the Catholic faith and experience and has recently adapted his novel THE
TESTAMENT OF MARY into a Broadway one-woman show. I downloaded his book into my
Kindle and can’t wait to start reading it.
Toibin’s Mary disdains the disciples’ drive for power after
the death of her son, by hiding the truth to protect the institution they are
building. Very interesting coming at this time when cardinals are meeting in
Rome to deal with the Vatican’s scandals, old and new sexual abuse revelations
and who knows what else.
He has also written a collection of short stories called
MOTHERS AND SONS and one of the stories deals with an Irish mother whose son is
a priest and is being charged with sexual abuse.
I find it heartening to see that authors are using the
medium of novels, short stories and plays to tackle very sensitive issues that
are currently being discussed and also to offer alternative views of what may
have really happened; the Gospels are not history but someone’s views of what
they may have wanted to happen but have no idea what really happened.
TOIBIN who is a gay Irish Catholic says that the church must
have tolerance (gay people, like all other people, are made in God’s image) and
its leaders have lost any sense of how sanctimonious denunciations clash with
their scandal and imagery, causing nothing but pain.
I have just read on the news that the Vatican is clamping
down on “leaks” and will not allow, mostly American cardinals to have press
conferences with the media because as everyone knows, Americans want transparency
and the Vatican is all about secrecy forever and ever and ever…really a great
time for a change.
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