Whose Diapers? Whence Rationality? by Randall Smith

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*Image: Paradise (from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1490-1510 [Museo del Prado, Madrid]. From the Prado: “When he initially embarked on the work, Bosch included the Creation of Eve on the left panel, but in a second phase he replaced it with God presenting Eve to Adam. This very uncommon subject was associated with the institution of marriage.”

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing, April 18, 2023

Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body.

So I guess Pope Francis said that the Church’s “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.”  People have asked me what I think of that.  My honest reply is, I’m sorry, but I don’t know what that means, any more than I know what it meant when that woman at Stanford asked, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” When I read that, I thought to myself:  Well, judging from the popularity of juice, I take it a lot of people think the juice is worth the squeeze.  It seemed a little like asking, “Is the fruit worth the harvest?”  The obvious answer would be, yes. …

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