Let me tell you something.
I live in the smallest county in my Bible Belt state. It is the only county in this part of the state with no Catholic church or mission of any kind whatsoever.
When I go to the official web site of the diocese in which I live I see a section dedicated to "gay and lesbian persons." The Catholic Church is very, very concerned that "gay and lesbian persons" not feeling "at home" in the Catholic Church.
Do you think for one minute that the diocese would ever, in a million billion years, have a ministry for "literalist persons" or "creationist persons" or have the slightest concern that such people might not feel "at home" in the Catholic Church? Do you?
Go to the Catholic Answers message board and read the posts of the poor soul who's been all but driven out of the Catholic Church by evolutionism and by constant questioning of his/her status as a "real Catholic." Do you think this person's bishop has a program for "persons" like him/her?
It is well-known that "private revelations," while permitted, or not dogmatically binding. However, there is no apologetics industry in existence devoted to the sole purpose of assuring sophisticates that they don't have to believe in Fatima, as there is with Genesis 1-11. And Genesis 1-11 is public revelation!
It seems to this outsider (and former insider) that the Catholic Church can stomach anything in the world except for the Bible (both the Jew's Torah and the Fundamentalist Protestant's Bible stories). If the book is so freaking dangerous, what do you use it for? After all, if the Catholic Church would just give up all claims to the "old testament" it would no longer be embarrassed by its "bloodthirsty, primitive" G-d or by people who believe in Him and in "all those silly stories" about Him.
If this website is saying that they can be both Catholic and practicing homosexuals, then the diocese is seriously in the wrong.
Go to the Catholic Answers message board and read the posts of the poor soul who's been all but driven out of the Catholic Church by evolutionism and by constant questioning of his/her status as a "real Catholic." Do you think this person's bishop has a program for "persons" like him/her?
I'm a serious doubter when it comes to the question of evolution, so I guess I'm not a "real Catholic" either! NOWHERE does it say in any official Catholic document that Catholics MUST believe in evolution. I'll bet that these same people are basing it on some words of John Paul II a few years back.
It seems to this outsider (and former insider) that the Catholic Church can stomach anything in the world except for the Bible (both the Jew's Torah and the Fundamentalist Protestant's Bible stories). If the book is so freaking dangerous, what do you use it for? After all, if the Catholic Church would just give up all claims to the "old testament" it would no longer be embarrassed by its "bloodthirsty, primitive" G-d or by people who believe in Him and in "all those silly stories" about Him.
I'm sorry you have this impression. There is a lot of cleaning that needs to be done in the Catholic Church. These same people, I'm betting, would have a problem with God sending fire and brimstone to Sodom! They ignore Jesus' own words, when He said:
And into what city soever you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. And heal the sick that are therein, and say to them: The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, going forth into the streets thereof, say: Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at that day for Sodom, than for that city (Luke 10: 8-12)
I guess it was very "hateful" of Our Lord when He said that! These hippie "Christians" are not Christians at all, and they're not just found in the Catholic Church.