Time out, TIME OUT! Is this Mario Cuomo, the former governor of the state of NY, telling Christ's Church what it should and shouldn't do? It can't be...
The second challenge is to reassess the alterable rules made for us by the male descendants of Peter who were and are humanly frail, as he was, and to readjust those rules to better serve the purpose of helping modern Catholics to live fuller and holier lives in this ever-changing world. This would include, among other things, reconsidering celibacy, women's role in the church and other contentious man-made church policies.
I guess it is...
The church can do this without abandoning its fundamental commitment to the Gospel of Jesus, and has in fact done it in the past in changing its position on slavery, usury, salvation outside the church and divorce.
It definitely is. Sheesh.
Mario sounds like a lesbian, feminist nun from the 1970s.
The church can do this without abandoning its fundamental commitment to the Gospel of Jesus, and has in fact done it in the past in changing its position on slavery, usury, salvation outside the church and divorce.
The Church never changed on any of these points. He's merely repeating the talking points of pseudo-Catholic liberals. He also claims that there have been no recent infallible pronouncements (also a liberal talking point--that only two dogmas have been proclaimed infalliblity in the last 2 centuries) which ignores the 1994 statement on non-ordination of women and the 1995 statements in Evangelium Vitae about abortion and euthanasia, in both cases crystal clear examples of invoking infallibility and irreformability. This piece by Cuomo is laughable.