[stuartcr]

Why would anyone listen to a Catholic clergy member about anything that has to do with sex and relationships?

[Jeff Chandler]

Why would anyone listen to a Catholic clergy member about anything that has to do with sex and relationships?

That depends on the answers to four questions:

1. Do you believe that truth is universal?
2. Do you believe that accumulated knowledge and wisdom can be transmitted to future generations, or do you feel that it is exclusively experiential--that every human being is completely unique and everything man has learned about human nature over thousands of years cannot possibly apply to an individual circumstance today?
3. Is the particular clergyman sufficiently educated in the universal truths and accumulated knowledge and wisdom transmitted though the ages?
4. Does the particular clergyman believe in the universal truths and accumulated knowledge and wisdom transmitted though the ages and attempt to live by them, or does he either believe that recent ideological deviations have, by their very modernity and their cover of scientific sanction superseded them, or believe in them yet decide to follow his own will?

[Iscool]

Why would anyone listen to a Catholic clergy member about anything that has to do with sex and relationships?

They seem to be well versed and experienced in sex and relationships...Just not the hetero kind...

[A.A. Cunningham]

Why would a moral relativist like you care?

[Campion]

Your comment is a textbook example of the ad hominem fallacy.

[LadyDoc]

you are confusing knowledge and experience.

As one of my counselers told a druggie who taunted her with the same thing: well, I counsel drug addicts and adulterers and gays and wife beaters and schizophenics and delusional people and the depressed.

If I had all those problems, I won’t be able to counsel anyone.

She is not writing about her experience, but about theology, how sexual expression and our sexual identity relates to God.

If she was experienced, she wouldn’t be pretending that there were no problems with premarital sex (40 percent of kids without fathers married to their mom), or the gay mirage (lesbians may be monogamous, but the promiscuity of gay men, especially those who are into the “gay lifestyle” is not just morally dangerous but sad and medically risky).