OK, I’ll admit that it IS pretty amazing that the current Pope has decided to courageously depart from the standard callousness & traditional hypocrisies of the Catholic church regarding poverty, war and homophobia … Of course, what I find even more amazing is that so many of us still need a Pope (or any other religious leader) to remind us of these things.

“For it is our hopes for personal blessings in this life, and then personal salvation in the next — what some call ‘faith’ — that bind & shackle any possibility of us showing a true Faith, a belief in the Divine made real solely by selfless acts of open-hearted gentleness given to our fellow beings.” ~ inspired by Alan Watts