On Saturday evening, a group of people gathered just outside St. Peter's Piazza to "protest the pope and the Vatican".

They were mad about something. But it was difficult to get a straight story out of them as to what, exactly, they were mad about.





What did strike me, though, was how, well, sad they all were. How utterly cut off from reality.


I spoke to this man, and asked him, "What evidence do you have that the Vatican thinks it's OK to kill homosexuals? In the last fifty years, say, how many times has the Church actually said this?"

It was as if he could not hear the words.

Actually, I wanted to tell him, I think the Church is more interested in getting you to stop killing yourselves.