Another anti-Catholic editorial

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This is really just a rehashing of the liberal Protestant view of the Church that Belloc spent so much time arguing against.

I would counter the argument by asking why Poland, a Catholic country, overthrew their communist leaders and established a democracy.
 
Maybe you could contact the Catholic League about this one. I would, just because this person’s viewpoint is perpetrating “half-truths” in the fact that the Catholic Church’s mission and hierarchy cannot be explained in a one-page article. Nor does it seem that he wants to “dig deeper” to explain the truth.

Demand a written apology in the next issue. We as a Church deserve for ranting people like this to pay the consequences for disrespect and libel. (Just a thought: Would Jews or racial minorities not challenge an article written like this about them? I think not.)

Thanks for posting and bringing this to our attention!

Jess
 
However, the Catholic Church was structured as a rigid hierarchy

She talks about heirarchy but has ther ever been a “democratic church” in any other sect? No or at least none that I know of. Do people vote for a priest? No, so I don’t really see where she is going with this argument.

There is no doubt whatever that this directive is intended as a way of appearing to proactively combat the crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic clergy.There is no doubt whatever that this directive is intended as a way of appearing to proactively combat the crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic clergy.

I think people look at this narrow mindedly(spell?). They tend to think that every thing that the Catholic Church does is in response to something happening in America. I just personally think this person it’s just a liberal ranter trying to get attention with out actually going into see why the Church really does what she does.
 
oh that reminds me of an editorial in the U o’ Washington daily paper (“the daily”)
I wrote a response to the thing i was so mad.
(the parts in parentheses were kindly edited out by the newspaper staff, grr. oh plus they never once capitalized Church. oh well at least they were willing to run my letter at all):

Your article regarding the ban on “gay” priests upset me. The Catholic Church was unfairly vilified. Without being intolerant of the people, the Church teaches that the act of embracing disordered desires (sexual or otherwise) is wrong. The moral teaching is, so long as you don’t succumb to the disordered desires, you are living morally. Also, it is gravely sinful to hate people because of such a condition or weakness.
The church teaches that all people are called to chastity according to their state of life (married are faithful, nuns monks and priests are celibate, and singles are to not have sex until/unless they marry). In my opinion, sexual “orientation” should only be an issue for seminary entrance if the man is found to be an active gay (thus creating an occasion for the sin of lust in the seminary or scandal once he is a priest) or unlikely to be able to live the rest of his life celibately (a standard that even a heterosexual man must pass). So long as a man can be truly and fully celibate, mind and body, and resist embracing or normalizing the “gay” subculture, and they have a true call to priesthood, I have no problem.
So I disagree a bit with what the Pope is rumored to think on how strictly the Church should weed out “gay” seminarians and others who are unfit for sexual reasons, but I know if it is indeed his order, he is not doing it out of hate but out of a pastoral concern-- too many men have hid their homosexuality under a cassock. But I know the order is an overstatement of what the Pope is really going to say. (Even if it isn’t, as a faithful Catholic, if Rome speaks, I shall obey.)
-Brian Thompson
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aj830 said:
However, the Catholic Church was structured as a rigid hierarchy

She talks about heirarchy but has ther ever been a “democratic church” in any other sect? No or at least none that I know of. Do people vote for a priest? No, so I don’t really see where she is going with this argument.

There is no doubt whatever that this directive is intended as a way of appearing to proactively combat the crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic clergy.There is no doubt whatever that this directive is intended as a way of appearing to proactively combat the crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic clergy.

I think people look at this narrow mindedly(spell?). They tend to think that every thing that the Catholic Church does is in response to something happening in America. I just personally think this person it’s just a liberal ranter trying to get attention with out actually going into see why the Church really does what she does.
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It is my understanding that the Quakers have a fairly democratic form of church decision making, and that may extend within the communities of the Mennonites, and/or groups fairly close to them.
 
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Jabronie:
Here’s one from the campus where I work. I want to respond, but I’d like some feedback from you guys and gals here first. Thanks in advance!

dailynebraskan.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/21/435865dcd8c5b
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Don’t take it personally when people hate you for your faith. It will happen. Pray for those who hate you.
 
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Jabronie:
Here’s one from the campus where I work. I want to respond, but I’d like some feedback from you guys and gals here first. Thanks in advance!

dailynebraskan.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/21/435865dcd8c5b
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Look! I posted some feedback and they put it on their website. (I am listed as “Joe”)

The guy who wrote the editorial made so many wild inaccurate points that I just decided to send in a short wise-crack instead of a specific challenge. I know it’s kinda lazy, but it expresses my opinion of his opinion 😛
 
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