Benedict, Sarah, Francis, and the Case of the Exploding Pope

A very long time ago in internet years, I think it was at the beginning of last weekend, Catholic social media erupted with the news that Cardinal Sarah and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were publishing a book together. The book, entitled From the Depths of Our Hearts, was a defense of priestly celibacy. As such, we were told by the Traditionalists, it would be a massive blow to the face of evil liberal Pope Francis who hates celibacy and is determined to destroy it– except that Pope Francis doesn’t and isn’t. But we mustn’t let the truth get in the way of a good outrage. Meanwhile, the Eastern Christian churches in and out of communion with Rome, who have quietly been ordaining married men for thousands of years, rolled their eyes and went about their business as usual.