Don’t think we’ve “bumped heads” Didn’t see my reply as harsh, simply direct. Your initial question goes against any and all accepted Catholic traditional teaching on the subject. It seems to be something that someone who lists himself as Catholic would never ask in seriousness, but rather a baiting or trolling post. Have seen a lot of them. Can’t say one way or another if your OP qualifies.
As to the scare quotes. I’ve seen a lot of poster register beliefs that are way off the reservation as legitimate questions for discussion. Such things as fornication being OK if the unmarried persons cannot have children, whether the bread would pass muster as the actual body of Christ if subjected to some off the wall physical test, that discrimination against homosexual men in the priesthood should be banned because it is discriminatory even though the current mess has to do with probably 95% homosexual activity. And on and on. These are “beliefs” of other forum members. Don’t actually know what your beliefs are, but your original question is, like I said earlier, a long ways off the reservation.
I have been responding to an awful lot of “Catholic” posters who are convinced that the Pope is a corrupt leader sanctioning more and more abuse and covering up for cardinals and bishops. And that the majority of priests are abusers and it is going on today. The church is being crucified by events that happened 30 t0 70 years ago by long dead priests and bishops.
I guess I am tired of the antagonism shown by these posters and most of my posts in response to them have been, let’s say, (and I am being generous to myself) curt. I think that may be coming through in answers to “strange” questions like yours.
