Saturday, 07/31/04

A Vatican body called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently issued a hotly awaited document clarifying papal policy on feminism. What struck me more than the handwringing about polymorphous sexuality and moral decline was the matter-of-fact assertion that there's no sex in heaven. "The temporal and earthly expression of sexuality is transient," quoth the Washington Post. It brings to mind the elderly joke repeated by Prairie Home Companion this afternoon, to the effect that Baptists condemn fornication because they're afraid it will lead to dancing.

While attempting to find a copy of the document, I learned that the CDF is a modern rebranding of what used to be called... nobody's going to expect this... the Inquisition.

Bonus points: the CDF's position on the "validity of baptism conferred by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" reads, in its entirety, "Negative." With such marvelously pugnacious brevity at their disposal, one has to wonder why it took forty years to tackle feminism. 05:53PM «

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