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To: SuziQ

That's it, exactly: persons being admitted to Seminaries who reject the teachings of the Church and persist in seeking the Priesthood. Not all, thank God, but it's the heart of the problem.

What I learned/was told/read as to the biggest challenge facing the Church from years ago forward (somewhat recognized now and being reckoned with, at least, I hope) was/is that a network, a community, so to speak, of homosexualities in the Priesthood and affiliated with Seminaries were proliferating the same interests and personality issues by whom they admitted.

Thus, a larger number of homosexuals in the Priesthood and the Priesthood itself modified to gradually reject the Church's teachings on this issue. It leads to where many Protestant groups are today and that is the slow humanistic changes in their concepts of what is holy and what is not and next thing you know, what is not holy stands where what is holy used to be.

I know this is a big issue for many of us Catholics. I'm glad about that, too.

About lesbians in religious orders, I was surprised to naively realize that that was so. It is not necessarily as predatory, perhaps, in nature as male homosexuals but it's still the same problem and issue (and challenge) and that is that some who reject the teachings of the Church are allowed to be admitted into Orders.


37 posted on 08/30/2005 7:15:32 AM PDT by BIRDS
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To: BIRDS

I do not undestand why my comments get posted twice. I post, no comments. Refresh browser, no comments. I copy and save, return later, no comments. So I return and post them again and then see two copies of the same comments.

It's either two copies or none, it looks like. Sorry.


39 posted on 08/30/2005 7:17:01 AM PDT by BIRDS
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To: BIRDS

As well as some in Africa and Central and South America who enter the process to escape their situations; He addressed this shortly after he became pope.


40 posted on 08/30/2005 7:20:31 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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