Why Catholic bishops need a year of abstinence on preaching about sexuality.
As the article
points out, sexual issues are the ones that the reactionaries I just
posted about are hoping to use to gain control.
There is an unmistakable hubris displayed when some in the church are
determined to make sexuality the lynchpin of Catholic identity at a time
when bishops have failed to convince their flock that they are prepared
to police predators in their own parishes.
Really, though one year isn't enough. They should realize their scandalous behavior has made anything they say about even unquestionable evil sexual behavior not credible. They have repudiated their moral authority on this issue and no one finds them credible, even the reactionaries that hope to use the issue to gain power. The Vatican approved, consecrated Bishops and Cardinals have no credibility on questions of sexual morality. I will point out that, on the other hand, the officially excommunicated (though they refuse to acknowledge their excommunication) Women Roman Catholic priests have brought no such scandalous incredibility on themselves.
If they are going to insist that sexual activity us the baseline of morality, they are insisting human beings are fundamentally sexual, not spiritual, beings
ReplyDeleteThe problems for the Church arising from that should be obvious.