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Originally Posted by Cloud
We do. Other churches have been hit with similar accusations, although perhaps not so much. The problem with the CC is the celibacy rule.
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I think the size of of the Church and its leaders lack of openness make it an easy target for journalists not to mention that anti-Catholicism will sell papers to both small-minded religious bigots and people with legitimate differences with Church policy.
Another problem is the RC Church lacks any real mechanism for bottom up change. They are going through "Parish Revitalization" in this diocese which is Bishop talk for closing churches and making it look like a local decision. I'd say tw's idea of churches as consultants is a fine one but completely misunderstands Catholicism.
Dana's Granddad's story gets right to the root of my problem with the Church. He could love a non-Catholic woman but his God could not. No just God could be party to that sort of death-bed fear mongering so how can the Church be a just God's representative? All this makes the huge assumption that there is a God that is somehow related to some human concept of god.