Posted on 04/24/2012 11:11:40 PM PDT by Cronos
...The Roman Catholic Church is a hierarchical institution if there ever was one.. this time the Pope has gone too far.
... they supported the White House over health care reform, lining up against the bishops. . they had the audacity to compromise with President Obama on the issue of birth control mandates in employers’ health-care programs. Finally, they have not been outspoken enough on gay marriage and abortion.
...These bishops ... have chosen Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain to lead the “reform.” Sartain recently asked priests in his archdiocese to sign a petition condemning gay marriage. Several refused. But if Pope Benedict is called “God’s rottweiler” then Sartain is the pitbull of the American Catholic Church.
...That those in charge of the Catholic Church are all celibate men already eliminates the possibility of justice. Women are not allowed to be priests
...It’s no wonder so many Catholics are leaving the church. They go longing for spirituality and they get dogma. A young friend of mine raised Catholic by nuns, wanted to return to the church and decided to go Easter Sunday. In the end she couldn’t go, she said, because by walking into the church she felt she would be condoning the handling of the sexual abuse scandal, health care reform, the issues of contraception, abortion rights (even in the case of the life of the mother) and gay marriage
...The nuns are facing the worst possible conundrum. Do they stay in a church that vilifies and condemns them, tells them where they can speak and what they can say, disrespects them and does not value what they do? Do they leave the church? Or do they stay and fight for their rightful place in the church, turn into “radical feminists” and take on the boys’ club?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
But you see gang she has an Irish sounding name so she MUST be a Catholic and therefore she MUST be listened to - BARFORAMA!
Chaput took Quinn to the “woodshed” when she received Communion at Russert’s funeral and then wrote about it.
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I think it was her then-married boss she rode in on.
I I I me me me. The gods of the author of this article.
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