Perhaps a couple of cardinals will come to our next Avebury Megameet on 1st August - there’ll be some pagans there including a few that are our members. They may find they are self-contained, cheerful and a threat to neither themselves nor the world – in fact not at all as they might expect. On the contrary, we’d say in general the one’s we’ve met aren’t treading a dangerous path at all and would probably subscribe to the very words the Pope quotes from Paul’s Letter to the Romans (Rom 12:9-10) :
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection.
The last line, then, not so very far removed from the Pagan Federation's declaration that, "To most modern P(a)gans in the West, the whole of life is to be affirmed joyfully and without shame, as long as other people are not harmed by one's own tastes."
http://www.paganfed.org/paganism.php
That being so, perhaps the Pontiff has more in common with the Pagan than he realises...
