Religion can't leave it's dirty claws out of anything. It seems that it must take responsibility for everything that is good and deny the existence of anything that is bad.
With his outrageous wit, clear disdain for figures of authority and
openly homosexual lifestyle, Oscar Wilde is an unlikely pin-up for the
Catholic Church. Persecuted and imprisoned for his sexuality, gay
rights campaigners have long idolised the 19th century writer as one of
their own.
But the Vatican, it seems, is equally enamoured of Ireland's greatest
wit. In a glowing review of a new study of Wilde by the Italian writer
Paolo Gulisano, L'Osservatore Romano – the Vatican's official newspaper
– praises the Irish playwright for being "an aesthete and a lover of
the ephemeral".
