Catholic Church's Real Challenge

TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, April 25, 2002 | by Joel Mowbray

[Salvation]

Rooting out the corrupting influence of the dissident culture will not be easy, but it will be absolutely necessary to spare future victims of predator priests."

I have been wondering if this is part of the reason we have dropped in the number of available priests. They just did not want to face the issue in the seminary.

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[Salvation]

Another one:

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[.45MAN]

The Catholic Church will survive. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous

It will survive maybe not as we know it and it will be up the the faithful of the Roman Catholic Church to make it survive. This will be no easy task. In todays world it is not easy to be Catholic and it is Extremely difficult to be Roman Catholic. What is going on today will create the line between the two.... I believe we are going to see two factions, Roman Catholic and something much less. We (Roman Catholics) could end up in the minority, hopefully not. What is happening today is something that a priest tried to explain to me many many years ago and I have had other faithful priests over the years continue on the thought.

There are many good and faithful priests out there! It is our responsibility to seek them out, support them, and tell others about them.

[redhead]

"Obviously, they understand themselves to be emotionally attached to the issue and emotionally excitable through a special affection for other homosexuals which is strong enough for them to make public and political pronouncements on the subject to the secular press."

How, then, can individuals with these unstable and emotionally-charged personalities be stable enough to handle the day-to-day business of a parish? I know I'm oversimplifying, but it seems to me that an emotional cripple like this would be a very poor choice as a pastor in a large and busy parish, even if he was celibate.