Back in 1981, “Celebration Time” was Kool and the Gang’s No. 1 hit song, their only No. 1 hit. According to Wikipedia, some of the lyrics were based on the Quran. Ronald Bell, the group’s saxophonist, said the idea was brainstormed when he read how the angels rejoiced and sang praises to God when Adam was created.
Pope Francis recently said, in one of his disquieting comments that sound contemptuous for the Church he is charged to love, that her teachings on sex are “still in diapers.” My mind turns to Christian poets who have written about the love of man and woman, and the moral dangers that beset it, from the troubadours and the Arthurian romancers of the 12th century to such modern Catholic authors as Mauriac, Claudel, Greene, Waugh, Böll, Percy and Francis’ own predecessor, John Paul II.