Saray Gray writing in Salon said that the Pope is amazing and she described his statements as exciting. 

Salon, the US based progressive magazine was created by David Talbot in 1995. A quick Google search about the magazine informs us that it focuses on US politics and current affairs. Salon also has book, film and software reviews as well as articles about relationships, friendships and human sexual behaviour.

I have no problem with anyone calling the Pope ‘amazing’. I think he is, but I have a problem with people calling the Pope amazing for the wrong reasons. Such people then tend to ignore actions and statements of the Pope which really make him amazing.

Brace yourself.

Gray thinks that the Pope is amazing because he has just stated that God should not be seen as a “magician with a magic wand,” and that evolution and the Big Bang theory are not incompatible with the church’s views on the origins of the universe and life.

Gray ups the ante saying that she finds this declaration as “exciting”. The lady must be one with a supersonic predisposition for excitement since she is so easily enthused.

What the Pope said has been said for zillion years. I have not read anyone in the Catholic Church who says the opposite.

But Ms Gray’s excitable state made her miss other recent statements which would be   high-strung for a progressive magazine such as Salon which campaigns for gay marriage and other items of the liberal agenda.

Take for example Pope Francis' reflection to the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement whom he received in Paul VI Hall October 25 when he clearly said that the new forms of living together are totally destructive to the family. There isn’t an official transcript of what he said so I base the following on the report of Vatican Radio.

Pope Francis said:

 “That the family is hit, that the family is knocked and that the family is debased as [how can this be] a way of association … Can everything be called a family? ... At present, from a sociological point of view and from the point of view of human values, as well as, in fact, of the Catholic Sacrament, of the Christian Sacrament, there is a crisis of the family, a crisis because it is hit from all sides and left very wounded!”

Referring to the new forms of living together the Pope said:

“What they are proposing is not marriage, it is an association, but it is not marriage! It is necessary to say things very clearly and we must say this!”

He continued:

“They are new forms, totally destructive and limiting of the grandeur of the love of matrimony.”

Are Ms Gray and her ilk, even in Malta, still exciting and shouting ‘amazing’?