A commentator on this sorry blog once asked, “Matthew, why are you so obsessed with articles about porn?”
Answers:
1. I am not so obsessed. I am merely obsessed.
2. I am not obsessed with articles about porn, but rather, the thing itself.
And so…an article about a priest who converted a porn star, who, it is being claimed, edged a little too close to that particular fire.
Transforming eros is no mean feat.
Analogous, perhaps, to Arthur Weasley’s fascination with Muggles and their artifacts. A race apart, and yet so close……