[randog]

What did Father Curran believe and teach that caused such uproar? Well, in large part, the kinds of things you might suspect would get someone in trouble with the Vatican — that the church was wrong to strictly ban all abortions, all premarital sex, all homosexual relationships, all forms of birth control except crossing your legs for part of the month; that the church should allow women and gays to be priests; that priests should be allowed to marry.

Oh, is that all he disagreed with?

He thinks that Catholicism, like every other religion, ought to evolve along with society.

All religions change with society? I don't think so. In fact, most don't bend to the whims of social fashion.

[ECM]

I attempted to explain the concept that the Church stands outside of time and should not be dictated to by the whims of the day to a group of people over the holiday--needless to say, they had a rather difficult time grasping this concept.

[CheyennePress]

I had this argument with a French Catholic friend of mine. She tried arguing that the Church should change with society. She didn't like it when I demanded that a society that faled to follow the Church was a failure to Catholocism and that a Church that followed the people on matters of doctrine was lost.

Strangely, she has come to see my side of things, recently. Very interesting interaction. I told her that I agreed with much that Pope John Paul II had to say. Apparently she hadn't heard much of that before.

Funny, I thought I was the Protestant.

Hey, I'm working on it. I now know a small group of Frenh Catholics who seem to be "getting it."