At the foot of Saint Peter’s — the very heart of Christendom — tschotke vendors sell magnets shaped like male genitalia. I watched the young priests who strolled the grounds of the Vatican, men with dark hair and fine Italian features, dapper in their black coats and white collars, and I wondered if they were conflicted, those men who — in another incarnation — might pass their days flirting on the Spanish steps. The reverend has since left the Roman Catholic Church to join the Episcopal Church and plans to wed his paramour. In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he says, “An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs — how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world — how he can please his wife. Even Martin Luther, the one-time priest and upstart who rocked the Catholic world and launched the Protestant Reformation, renounced his vows and married a nun. read more
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