Waiting for the Beat » 2009

interesting how the church takes credit for the good work of their enemies

Religion can’t leave it’s dirty claws out of anything. It seems that it must take responsibility for everything that is good and deny the existence of anything that is bad.

With his outrageous wit, clear disdain for figures of authority and openly homosexual lifestyle, Oscar Wilde is an unlikely pin-up for the Catholic Church. Persecuted and imprisoned for his sexuality, gay rights campaigners have long idolised the 19th century writer as one of their own.

But the Vatican, it seems, is equally enamoured of Ireland’s greatest wit. In a glowing review of a new study of Wilde by the Italian writer Paolo Gulisano, L’Osservatore Romano – the Vatican’s official newspaper – praises the Irish playwright for being “an aesthete and a lover of the ephemeral”.

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July 18, 2009 at 10:39 am | Uncategorized | No comment