No,the answer is clear out the homosexuals priests,live with a Church that is purer and poorer and stronger and maybe even smaller,for a while.Then in an atmosphere of serenity study the scriptures and pray and seek to discern what Christ really wants of his "consecreted followers".
My facts on married priests in the Eastern Rite and converted Episcopalian married priests are not wrong. You obviously disagree that married priests in the Western Rite would be a good thing.
But in any case wouldn't it be adding stupidity to probable error to change horses in mid-stream? No less,a raging stream with a huge waterfall within earshot. By the time the horse is changed we'll all be over the dam.
If a billion dollars in settlements to victims of these priests is "over the dam" I don't know what is.
Most Catholics (American and otherwise) are far less uptight about married priests than some on Free Republic.
Very well said. Part of the problem (perhaps the principal part) was addressed in a talk given by a certain saint of the 20th Century which I once saw on videotape. This priest said something like, "Children, pray for the Church. In past centuries, the heretics would leave the Church. But now, they're not leaving!"
Maybe people in past centuries had a little more intellectual honesty. Or maybe people today are just more brazen in their attempts to re-create God and His Church in their own image.