A kinder, gentler Flying Buttress?

+Reviled Flying Buttress Publisher Tomas de Torquemada, apparently feeling guilty over his unremitting adversarial relationship with Archbishop Pilarczyk and his fellow travelers, has decided to adopt a new, more understanding posture toward His Excellency's lavender peccadilloes.

Just recently, the whole Chancery gang engaged in a self-awareness exercise - in the form of an Enneagram questionnaire - at a team-building retreat. The Flying Buttress has obtained a copy of the questionnaire filled out by the Archbishop, and, as our first gesture of goodwill, we publish it here. In our next issue, we will offer our most understanding and compassionate analysis of this data, so that His Excellency will be better empowered to understand his personality style and how that style should interact with his staff, his priests, and with the flock of which he is the shepherd.

Here then are the Archbishop's questionnaire responses:

1. I seem to know the right thing to do. x Seldom Sometimes Often

2. I find it easy to make ethically nuanced decisions.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

3. Compromise is wrong when making moral decisions.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

4. I work well within systems. Seldom x Sometimes Often

5. I have some trouble with a lot of “shoulds” in my life.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

6. What I should do is often more important than what I may feel.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

7. Obeying authority is important to me.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

8. Being obeyed is important to me.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

9. Sometimes I play the Devil’s Advocate. I really get into it, too.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

10. My emotions seem more intense than others.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

11. I don’t mind being a little different from the crowd. Different is good!

Seldom Sometimes x Often

12. I’m more sensitive than most people and I suffer because of it.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

13. People tell me their troubles like it’s my job or something.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

14. I tend to like a lot of liturgical variety in my life.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

15. Justice is important to me. I am a natural champion of the underdog.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

16. People need some kind of moral compass.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

17. I think relationships are the most important thing in the world and I have a lot of them.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

18. I think my subjective opinions are more important than objective facts.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

19. I love tradition.

x Seldom Sometimes Often

20. Underground newsletters only tell one side of my story.

Seldom Sometimes x Often

Miscellanea CATHOLICA

+The full text of "Sacramentum Caritatis."

+Father Tom Enteneuer on contraception.