*snort* Good one.
If the Catholic church EVER capitulates to the gay lobby, in even the most minor way, they’ll lose greater than 85% of their flock overnight. The Vatican knows this. They haven’t been around for 2000 years by being flippant and caving to every political wind that blows by them.
Nor has the Papacy bent to popular will. The church stands as a bastion of God against willfull sin. McMahon knew full well he was in violation to basic teachings of the church in which he worked, taught and studied. His hypocrisy was astounding. FWIW he came up in the church at a time when homosexuality was an acceptable practice among the priesthood. Seminaries in the 70’s were rife with queerdom. This was the breath of fresh air some saw as leavening the church. In truth it soured the whole loaf.
The church does not ‘think’ as a democracy
The church will never capitulate as its definition is its dogma. When people in the church disagree and change it they are called protestant
This article is... No the headline is meant to disturb. There is nothing in the article that asserts this claim
The church is not challenged. It’s members a persecuted by the culture but the church is in no way challenged
Not at all
They haven’t been around for 2000 years by being flippant and caving to every political wind that blows by them.
...as evidenced, I take it, from Roncalli’s call for ecumenical council, for the purposes of adressing ‘the modern world’...
Why not? The embracing of liberalism has worked out so well for the Episcopal and Anglican churches./Sarc with a capital S.