I'm not acquainted with Joey Slinger, but his column in today's Toronto Star has irked Catholics. Bettnet calls it a declaration of war. I tried to register in order to read the column in full, but the TS registration process appears to be broken. You'll have to settle for excerpts from this site.
In the column, Slinger takes issue with the Pope and Bishops of the Catholic Church who are considering refusal of communion for those Catholics who obstinately persist in grave public sin, such as pro-abortion and pro-same-sex 'marriage' politicians. "So the Pope is thinking about excommunicating our Prime Minister, is he? In the religion game, that's called hardball," writes Slinger.
Slinger continues, "So if the Pope wants to play hardball, fine. We can play hardball too. How about he can excommunicate our Prime Minister and we can get rid of the tax exemption on Catholic Church property? What a windfall that would be. Millions. Millions upon millions. Mega-millions if we make it retroactive . . . They'd have to start selling their real estate. Failing that, we'd have to seize it and auction it off. It's happened before. It was a fairly popular medieval screw-you gesture." . . .
Following the diatribe Slinger adds, "I hope this won't be mistaken for some kind of threat. It's just that if the Pope feels inclined to give us something to think about, we might as well give him something to think about." Concluding, "All's fair in faith and war. But isn't it strange that the further we move ahead into the 21st century, the further the Vatican moves backward into the 12th?"
