Catholics shouldn’t rigidly interpret the Bible
Among the winners are Genesis iii, 16 (“God said to the woman [after she was beguiled by the serpent]: ‘I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.’ ”) and, “Such symbolic language [as used in Revelations] must be respected for what it is, and is not to be interpreted literally.”
Holy shit. This is a tremendous step into the last century for the Catholic church (not being that snarky… I don’t think there’s been enough of this century for us to get a sense of the zeitgeist).
Thank God.