“So the Pope is talking about coming to New York?
We'll see if my invite comes in the mail anytime soon.
"Honestly, I’m probably
not being canonized … yet. But so what? And being ignored hasn't really
affected me much. I really think that withholding his Pontifical approval is
okay, at least for now. If anything, it's probably a healthy outlet for
whatever complicated sorts of feelings he must be having about me right now.
And, after all, I can't really blame him. It’s not like I’m a 12-year-old boy
lying face down in the Sacristy with my cassock pulled up over my head. He can
ignore me.
“Everybody has the right to tell their story, under
oath. My sense is that he will tell a very different story from mine. But
that's why “Joe the Rat” and I -- we're not together anymore. A lot of what
religion is must be is the ability to agree on a central narrative, and then to
stick to it – no matter what the cops say. You know that, right?
“And the shockingest thing about the break up was,
even after going through six months of therapy, it was like, ‘We do not agree
on a single thing about what's going on here.’ That's called irreconcilable
differences. Or heresy. Honestly, I really don't have a lot of hostility toward
him. He's moved on; he's got kids now with that Italian trollop, so he's moved
on with his life. I'm glad he's happy. I just—I don't want to live with his
judgmental nature anymore. You know that, right?”
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