[jec1ny]

"I'm amazed it took them so long to decide that the Bible is correct and that they ought to adhere to its standards..."

If I may offer a small suggestion. One should refrain from making commenting on matters that are likely to betray one's glaring ignorance on the subject matter at hand. The Church has ALWAYS and unfailingly condemned homosexual activity. And there have always been rules prohibiting their admission into the priesthood. This is merely the most recent reiteration of the Churches' long standing teaching. With regard to recognition I would suggest rereading the canons and decrees of the council of Trent with which you are obviously unfamiliar. They affirm the ancient teaching of the Patristics and the earliest traditions of the church that Holy Scripture is an inerrant and infallible source of divine revelation. Anathema is pronounced against all those who deny this.

[trebb]

I'm not as ignorant as you would have me. I come from a long line of Catholics and my Dad was an altar boy. The article alludes to problems that had been arising, because like so many of the religions, Catholicism has those that would interpret the Bible to suit their own beliefs and allow that which the canons prohibit. My point was that, if they had been consistently aggressive, and censured the Bishops and others that would go against the canons, the reaffirmation would not be necessary. When they get lax, and don't hammer those in the Church that act in contradiction to it, problems grow and fester. Do you suppose that the Church would have suffered all the scandal from the homosexual pedophilia cases if the Church had been on the ball and slapped them down from the get-go instead of either leaving the offenders in place, or merely moving them to other parishes?