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Vatican City, 4 Jan. Rome daily La Repubblica reported on Thursday:
Oscar Wilde, the great 19th century English playwright, poet, author of Irish descent also perceived by many as a gay icon, is being ‘rehabilitated’ by the Vatican in a book written by a close aide of Pope Benedict XVI.
In ‘Pro-vocations - Aphorisms for an anticonformist Christianity‘, Father Leonardo Sapienza, a Rogationist priest and the head of protocol at the Prefecture of the Pontifical House, lists about a thousand of the author’s most famous aphorisms - such as ‘I can resist everything except temptation’ - along with those of a less famous and equally provocative writer, Nicolas Gomez Davila, a Colombian Christian who died in 1994.
Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 16 October 1854 and died adged 46 on 30 November 1900 in Paris. He converted to Catholicism on his deathbed after a life of excess and provocations in Victorian England, where he also served a forced labour sentence on homosexuality charges.
Official Vatican doctrine condemns homosexuality hence this looks more and more controversial. Does it mean Vatican is softening its position on the issue?
Father Sapienza explained his fascination with Wilde by saying that he had been a “writer who lived perilously and somewhat scandalously but who has left us some razor-sharp maxims with a moral”.
It is not the scandal that surrounded Oscar Wilde for all of his life or his alleged and actual homosexual adventures but his deep esoteric knolege is what scares the Vatican so much. Listen to these quotes to feel it:

“I’ve been looking for love all my life and all I’ve ever found were lovers!”

And, then, the more famous one about sin:

“The easiest way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

It may be that struggled with his personal demons, but a man who wrote stories like “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant” must have known the Lord.

“How else, but through a broken heart could Our Lord have entered in?”

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