My friend Joseph Sciambra, who has been relentless in trying to get people to see the depth of the homosexual crisis in the Church and its relationship to abuse, and has been lamenting our collective blindness to the magnitude of the problem, had an interesting take: he
says this scene was “chosen with a purpose – to distract; and Catholic conservatives are falling for it. Every time.”
My response to him: It’s an effective distraction, because we have a right to expect the true, the good, and the beautiful from a Church founded by God. Intuitively, this is an offense against reason and sense making; a purposeful weaponization of ugliness.
It is meant, I think, to attack right order and aesthetic sensibility; whether intentionally or not, therefore, it is meant to demoralize us.
