Reporting abuse... Well of course they should.
Repeal celibacy? Priest and Nuns are married to the church, it’s been that way from the start and it will be that way in the end. If you want to be a priest and have sex become a heathen Protestant and leave the Catholic church.
Catholicism isn’t a club or a democracy... It’s the church of St. Peter, Christ’s disciple, and it isn’t about keeping up with the times, it’s about the words of Christ and the Catholic interpretation of those words and many other religions are available to those who don’t subscribe to Catholic doctrine.
The whining and lamenting from Catholics who don’t actually subscribe to the Catholicism they’ve been taught and grew up with is nauseating... Just shut up and find another place to go worship.
heathen protestant? Some for sure. Though not many worshiping statues and such.
They're talking about forcing priests to report admissions made in the Confessional.Of course evidence obtained in other ways should be reported...but not things revealed during confession.
Not to pick a fight (but really, you started it) There may indeed be “heathen protestants”, if one belongs to a church, but isn’t really a Christian. But a Christian is a Christian, be he Protestant or Catholic. One seldom comes across another, anymore, who maintains that only Catholics are Christians. Thankfully, neither the Catholic Church, nor any of the several Protestant Churches, are God, and He alone knows his sheep.