The Roman Catholic Church has to abolish
compulsory clerical celibacy, admit and embrace its gay priests and lay
people, and stop obsessing about sex. This week the Roman Catholic Synod on the
family began in Rome. For three weeks a large, international collective
of what is overwhelmingly older, celibate men will discuss parenting,
sex and family life and then tell hundreds of millions of their flock
how to raise their families.
The optics are hardly spectacular. But then neither is the reason behind the event or the reality of its dialogue. The Synod has been called because even the routinely out-of-touch Vatican has realized that the vast majority of Catholics are either ignorant of or indifferent towards Catholic sexual teaching and the cardinals and bishops seem to genuinely believe that if they discuss it all and perhaps change a few words things will suddenly be well. That just won’t happen.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/10/13/on-sexuality-the-catholic-church-is-living-a-lie.html
The optics are hardly spectacular. But then neither is the reason behind the event or the reality of its dialogue. The Synod has been called because even the routinely out-of-touch Vatican has realized that the vast majority of Catholics are either ignorant of or indifferent towards Catholic sexual teaching and the cardinals and bishops seem to genuinely believe that if they discuss it all and perhaps change a few words things will suddenly be well. That just won’t happen.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/10/13/on-sexuality-the-catholic-church-is-living-a-lie.html