[sinkspur]

You are most definitely part of the problem with the crisis of faith and the crisis of disobedience.

There's no crisis of faith in my heart. If anything, I'm more convinced than ever that the Holy Spirit is stirring the pot, so to speak.

As far as "disobedience" is concerned, nobody's told me I can't talk about this.

Let me ask you: if you were drawing water out of a well, and the well started going dry, how would you respond to someone who said " The answer here is clear: Pray that God fills the well with water"?

This isn't doctrine, ntwtstndg. It's practice, and the Vatican has admitted that celibacy is not integral to the Latin Rite priesthood by allowing 200 married Protestant ministers to jump the fence and be ordained.

[Notwithstanding]

If

your habit
was to show loud support
for the good that pope and bishops do
rather than
to limit your loudness to pissing and moaning
about every single misstep
you think they might have made

then

I might give your opinion weight.



But as your habit is clearly established, nothing you type here at FR is credible.

[Aliska]

Let me ask you: if you were drawing water out of a well, and the well started going dry, how would you respond to someone who said " The answer here is clear: Pray that God fills the well with water"?

Pray that God lets you dig a new well that has pure water.

[CobaltBlue]

>>the Vatican has admitted that celibacy is not integral to the Latin Rite priesthood by allowing 200 married Protestant ministers to jump the fence and be ordained<<

The Catholic Church has far more aesthetically pleasing services, and far more intellectually satisfying doctrines, than any Protestant church I am aware of but when the rubber meets the road what really matters is Christ's teachings, and the Protestants do as good a job. The Catholics are better organized here on earth but I don't believe Catholicism is the only way to heaven.

I have Martin Luther's 95 Theses here next to me on my desk, my husband is hopeful, but if I were to switch I'd try Episcopalianism first. But then, maybe it's just because the Episcopalians have prettier windows and higher toned music. In other words, it's the temporal, not the spiritual.