Not all gay men are evil and worthy of being shunned. The Vatican has decided that gay men who are noted for their wit aren't totally worthless in spite of their deep moral failure.
L'Osservatore Romano has devoted an entire article to Oscar Wilde, so famous for being a homosexual when homosexuality was a crime.
Why is he not all bad? Because he became a Catholic and turned his back on the Anglican Church. In your face, heretics.
Scholars are forever studying the works of dead writers, picking at what meat is left on the dried old bones. Paolo Gulisano has found some scraps in Wilde's conversion to the True Faith.
Any man who sees the light can't be all bad, and there's no denying that Oscar Wilde was a master at observing the polite society of his time and then skewering the same. He made a living at pointing out the ridiculous and the hypocritical, displaying a level of wisdom that rose above his personal troubles. His writings display his quest for truth and justice and the reason for man's existence on this earth.
Oscar Wilde is on the ascendant in the Vatican, elevated above his former position of pariah. Yes, he was brilliant and his body of work is still popular. Even so, one has to wonder about the attempts by the Vatican to embrace a very much out-there homosexual whose legal battles are as much a part of his legend as his plays.
The Pope continues to denounce homosexuality as a sin, but there's plenty of priests in parishes all over the world who are just as gay as Oscar Wilde and living with the same prejudices that sent the noted playwright to jail. Are they hoping for their own patron saint?
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