Why can’t the Pope just solve this problem?
What is he? What is his role?
I belonged to ELCA affiliated Lutheran Church.
When the ELCA did the job on human sexuality policy our congregation split. We left the building and took the senior Pastor with us. We worship weekly in a rented facility. We feel that we have been very blessed because of this.
What is a Catholic Parish to do if they know their Priest is gay?
Jesus is simply sorting the sheep from the goats just as he had promised.
It appears that you true Catholics will have to make some sort of personal choice at some point.
He is a bishop, among other bishops.
I belonged to ELCA affiliated Lutheran Church. When the ELCA did the job on human sexuality policy our congregation split. We left the building and took the senior Pastor with us. We worship weekly in a rented facility. We feel that we have been very blessed because of this.
And you most probably are. We have a hierarchy that is a hierarchy of bishops and the situation is that they are equals. It is not a military hierarchy in which we have a chief of the armed forces which commands absolutely. It is a lot more tenuous than that. Why do you think that so many bishops can depart so far from the Faith?
What is a Catholic Parish to do if they know their Priest is gay?
Ah, that is different. They can go and choke the living sh*t out of their bishop until he removes the priest. I've done similar...
It appears that you true Catholics will have to make some sort of personal choice at some point.
Many of us have already. I doubt that there is an individual that will f**k with my kids in this entire diocese, for instance.