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To: metmom
I hate to say it, but it does seem like the gates of hell are prevailing against the Catholic church.

No, they aren't.

The infiltration by homosexuals WILL destroy it from within if not dealt with and that doesn’t seem to be happening rapidly enough to forestall the inevitable.

Near the end of his Papacy, John Paul II recognized the problem of liberalism in the Seminaries, which gave rise to the allowance of homosexuals into the priesthood. He actually set down rules that homosexuals were not suitable to be priests. Many Bishops in the US ignored him. As the Bishops who had been influenced by liberalism and feminism aged, he began appointing Bishops who were more orthodox, and who began to follow those rules.

Pope Benedict has continued that practice. He realized the problems when he was head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and worked with Pope John Paul II, to effect the changes that needed to be made to fight the progressivism that was permeating the Catholic Church in the US. We are seeing the fruits of those changes each day.

91 posted on 05/23/2011 8:30:12 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

This is about the Catholic church in Europe, not the US, and this is the fruit.


94 posted on 05/23/2011 8:51:24 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SuziQ

One more time for the record.

The solution that I see as best for the Catholic church is to allow, again, as in the past, a married priesthood. It is only partly for the reason of control of sexual desires.

The main benefit is that it would open up a vast pool or men who would be qualified to be priests so that the homosexual/pederast ones could all be eliminated and have someone to replace them with. It would be the least disruptive, although I realize it would be a real stretch for many Catholics to adjust to a married clergy, kind of like the reaction when the mass went from Latin to English and they turned the altar around.

I have a relative who left the priesthood to become married. No doubt, if he had been allowed to be married as a priest, he would have stayed one. And he’s not the only one I’ve ever heard of. I’m sure that there would be many committed Catholic men who’d like that as an option.


96 posted on 05/23/2011 8:59:10 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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