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--- Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This is precisely the reason people have been
> embracing Dan Brown and fleeing from the Catholic
> Church, because it resists evolution. It is one
> thing to honour tradition, it is another to claim
> it as The Truth and The Way.
>
> Is there any virtue in barring women from attaining
> priesthood? Is there any virtue in enforcing
> celibacy on priests? Is there any justice in
> constantly referring to homosexuality as a
> perversion? Is there any virtue in condemning birth
> control, invitro-fertilisation, stem cell research
> and any other advancement that is deemed "not
> natural" by the Church?
>
> Our spirituality must go hand in hand with changes
> that are taking place in the world. It cannot exist
> in a vacuum detached from reality.
>
Mario observes:
>
Elisabeth,
There are "official", scholarly - from a religious
perspective - answers to all your questions, which
have generated heat for decades now. However, I will
leave it up to the Catholic priests on Goanet to
answer you on the grounds they are far better trained
and paid to do so than a cafeteria Catholic like me
who focuses mostly, though not entirely, on WWJD, and
have always opposed the trappings of pomp and
ceremony.
>
My opinion has always been that those who feel
strongly about these things should follow their faith,
or lack thereof, elsewhere, rather than torturing
themselves with their individual issues, because -
let's be realistic - the Catholic Church does not
respond very often to even plausible sounding
developments, no matter what, for often arcane
reasons, whereas there are several others that change
as often as the prevailing winds. I oppose the
attitude of a Veronica Rue, who arrogantly declares
herself a "Roman Catholic woman priest" when there is
no such thing. She may be a priest to her followers,
even a good priest, she's just not a "Roman Catholic
woman priest". Who is she kidding?
>
I have chosen to stay within the flock because, on
balance, the grass is not greener on the other side,
in my never humble opinion.
>
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