Whahoo!

"Sorry, Mr. Amrhine, but the pope is Catholic, and the church isn’t going anywhere".

Buy this man a beer! He rebutts a ridiculously reasonable column by the said Mr. Amrhine.

When Mr Amrhine wine:

Analysts of the Catholic church described the new pope, the former German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as very conservative--a strict constructionist, to borrow a term applied to certain Supreme Court justices and nominees. But the observers added that during his tenure, a pope can change his views as he gains experience in the role. Yet while his papacy may evolve in the coming years, Pope Benedict is not likely to champion revision of church law on the issues mentioned above.

Mr. Rubin smacks him upside the hear:

Apparently, Mr. Amrhine can’t comprehend the idea of standing up for truth when it’s unpopular; nor does he understand what the pope’s job actually is.

The pope isn’t a theological dictator whose every whim becomes doctrine, but rather the guardian of the Catholic deposit of faith. He can’t change Catholic beliefs any more than the pro-abortion “Catholics” can.

To Mr. Amrhine's overheated charge of the Church's sexism:

While I'm unlikely ever to see eye-to-eye with a church that forbids the use of birth control, that would deny a woman's right to control her own body, and that, in my opinion, generally subjugates women...

Mr. Rubin doses him with the cool water of reality:

As for Mr. Amrhine’s charges of sexism, the church believes that the only perfect human person was a woman, Mary. She has taught from her inception the duties that husbands have to their wives, and that women can choose a life outside of marriage, an emancipation enjoyed in few non-Western societies to this day. No wonder the first Roman converts to Catholicism were predominantly women.

More power to Michael Rubin and any Fool like him. Whahoo!