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Albrecht Dürer, ‘Adam and Eve,’ 1504 (Fletcher Fund, 1919/Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) It is not unfair to say that Catholic conversation about sex and gender has a problem. More accurately, it has a pair of problems: one concerns our ability to speak credibly to the non-Catholic public; the other concerns our ability to speak productively to one another. The first problem is, I am sorry to say, largely our own doing. The Church has the canonical structures to bring women into the uppermost ranks of leadership without any alteration to our understanding of sacramental theology, but has not used them.
The creator of the tremulous pirate saw the Sixties through an improbable cardinal of his own invention 19 December 2020 • 4:10pm John and Priscilla Ryan in his studio with a papier-mâché model of Captain Pugwash made by schoolchildren Credit: Christine Boyd Apart from Captain Pugwash, the most memorable creation of the cartoonist John Ryan was Cardinal Grotti. There were other contenders – Harris Tweed, Extra Special Agent, the bumbling sleuth featured in The Eagle throughout the Fifties, or the villain in Sir Prancelot, Count Otto the Blot, based on an employer of Ryan’s. Cardinal Grotti might embody an unreal stereotype as much as the pirate Pugwash, with his cutlass, striped jersey and skull-and-crossbones hat. But the cartoon churchman also marked a historical divide.