カトリック教会改革

　大改革らしい。

BBC Vatican considers ordaining older married men in remote parts of Amazon 17 Jun 2019

「The Vatican has raised the idea of ordaining older married men as priests in the Amazon's remote areas where there is a shortage of clergy, in what could be a historic shift, the BBC's religion editor Martin Bashir reports.」

「The document also calls for some kind of "official ministry" for women in the area, although it does not elaborate.」

「This would be a dramatic change given that the First and Second Lateran Councils of 1123 and 1139 explicitly forbade priests from marrying - so we are almost past 1,000 years since the Catholic Church has maintained male celibate priests.」


「This is likely to raise the usual questions about whether Pope Francis is a reformer, battling to change the Church.」

　これについては、そこらの新聞記者や批評家気取りの人らと違って、彼は真っ当な政治家なんだというだけで済みそうではあるが。
　自分が思うような改革に言及すれば改革者扱いし、それにちょっとでも反するような言動でもあれば即座に反動主義者扱いする―そんな脊椎反射的な言論にいちいち関わりあっては話がすすまない、とでもいおうか。

　気晴らし程度にはいいんですがね、それ以上のものではないと正確に認識しておくべきかと。