I don't mind honest Catholics wanting to know the extent of the problem, and actually, I think in some ways it has been beneficial to my evangelical efforts. It has motivated me to spread my knowledge and beliefs, much moreso than before this happened. I believe in the end this whole situation will strengthen my church and she will be led to new glories.
Hi restornu,
Let me try to explain something. I'll use an illustration to help.
I'm a foot doctor. Last week, a patient came to me with a swollen foot. They had stepped on a toothpick 3 months ago, but thought they got it all out.
However, a piece remained. The patient's foot only started to show signs of a problem 2 months after she stepped on the toothpick.
It got red, hot and swollen. And it hurt. A lot. She even had a fever.
What is going on in the media is the fever telling us the body of Christ is sick. There is all the signs of an infection, that must be cleared away.
I treated my patient by removing the piece of toothpick. It was not large, but it really hurt to get it out, and there was a lot of foul looking and smelling stuff that came out with it.
Would I have done my patient any good by telling her to go home, that there really was no problem, despite all the obvious signs?
To look at her foot, you couldn't tell it was in there because you couldn't see the toothpick under all the layers the body had formed over and around it. But I had to cut through those layers to expose it and remove it.
Now, it will take a while, but the wound will heal.
But it would have gotten far worse if I had told her to go home because there was no real problem.
By the way, her family doctor had tried but failed to remove it. He just didn't have the tools or the courage to cut deep enough to get to the root of the problem.
In our Church, there is a deep infection, a deep abscess, with a foreign body at its root.
That foreign body is homosexuality.
The family docs are the bishops and cardinals.
But they just don't have the tools or the courage to cut deep enough to get to the root of the problem. In some cases, they are the problem.
In this age, by God's Providence, it has been given to the laity to take the initiative to cut out the foreign body and all that ugly stuff surrounding it.
God is handing us, the laity, the scalpel and the hemostats.
We see the fever and the depth of the sickness, and He is relying on us to remove it. The hierarchy has proven themselves unwilling or unable.
Without FReedom of the press, here on FRee Republic and elsewhere, we are being robbed of some of our most important surgical instruments needed to remove this deeply imbedded toothpick and all the pus and fever surrounding it.
Please do not criticize the laity who are trying to open the abscess and drain it.
It might look like we intend to hurt the patient. But this is the only thing that will save it.