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DAY 23(Sunday, 11 May 2014)THE CHURCH IS NOT TIMELESSIt is DAY 23 of my hunger strike and I woke up feeling like I had been beaten with a baseballbat. This is what happens when you only sleep four and a half hours and give five interviews ina 24 hour period, speaking for a total of six hours.By the time everything was said and done yesterday it was almost four in the morning when Ifinally managed to go to bed. But I am not complaining, just the contrary, because despite theexhaustion I went to bed with a feeling of accomplishment and woke up this morning at 8:30with the same feeling of accomplishment soon amplified by the Vatican’s announcement that itwill update its policy on families, which I discovered in my daily Google alerts as soon as Iopened my computer. This is great news, especially as it comes with the Vatican’s admissionthat the Church is not timeless, which also implies that it is not infallible, thus paving the way forthe dissolution of the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility that has stood in the way of altering previouspolicy positions and this could be the beginning of the end for the Vatican’s refusal to allow theuse of contraceptives. If that is indeed where Pope Francis and Cardinal Baldisseri are goingwith this, then it could also be the beginning of the end for all covert methods of depopulation,since governments across the world and the international community would be free to defuse theoverpopulation bomb by legislating family size and endowing people with the responsibility andcontraceptives necessary to limit their own family size.The weighing scales show that I have lost once again just a modest 100 grams since yesterdayand that means that I now weigh 77.9 Kg, or 171 pounds and 12 ounces. The total weight loss todate is 14.6 Kg or just a couple of ounces over 32 pounds. This means that my body has shrunkby 15.8% and that is has done so by losing an average of 660 grams a day.I did my prayer today on St. Peter’s square amidst a sea of Brazilians singing as though theirlives depended on it, which made for a very colorful and sound-rich background for my sereneact of public prayer. When I opened my eyes, at the end of my 15 minutes of meditation, Idiscovered that hundreds of people had lined up on each side of the wooden barriers set up tocontrol the crowd and were watching me intensely. It’s a pity Nick could not be there to recordit.I must confess that I have come to love and to look forward to my daily prayers in St. Peter’ssquare and that when this is over I will miss walking to this extraordinarily beautiful andmajestic place to dedicate a part of my day to such a contemplative and soothing pursuit asprayer.My will and my body are one with the task and I will not leave Rome until and unless PopeFrancis acts.95