Of course these jerks are insensitive and inflexible on the subject of abortion. Hell, they won’t even allow for birth control! They are so far removed from the lives and struggles of the laity that it isn’t even funny. Women seem to exist solely to provide more little Catholics for the hierarchy to screw up. I notice that the hierarchy LOVES to teach the laity but they are so proud and arrogant that they don’t believe that the laity could teach them a few things.

As for this witchhunt against gay priests and lesbian nuns, it is disgusting. Many priests and nuns entered religious life because they were really allowed no healthy life in the outside world. Many of them I believe were “guilted” into religious life. But a fair portion of priests and nuns believe in the religious life and should be left the hell alone! If they allowed for a married priesthood (both gay and straight) you would see far less of the pedophilia that has made the RCC so infamous in recent years. Most people do not do well being celibate and it certainly shouldn’t be forced nor should it be a reason for forbidding someone to serve God (as they believe being a priest does). It would also be good to have women priests. In addition to helping decrease paedophilia,it would also provide a clergy which is living a life similar to that of the laity and would bring more understanding of the real problems faced by laypeople.

I was Catholic for several years in my 20s and would never return to the RCC. Their homophobia and hatred of women are simply dispicable. Thank the Goddess for the Old Catholic Church and for Paganism. I practice both and will never let some woman-hating, homophobic bishop or priest tell me how to live my life ever again.

Quite some time ago I wrote to the editor of “Christian Order”, a British right-wing Roman Catholic periodical, who had written a long, tiresome rant about “homosexuals” in general and about “pervert priests” in particular. I pointed out that the unenlightened teaching of the RC Church on homosexuality, coupled with the rule of mandatory celibacy for priests, actually attracted gay Catholic men who took that teaching seriously and who, though they had no priestly vocation, had convinced themselves that they did have one as a means of copping out of being gay and burying the issue.

I also pointed out that, if you want to “play around” with under-age adolescents, you certainly don’t need to be a RC priest in order to do it, and I challenged him to consider seriously what it was, therefore, that attracted such men to the priesthood.

I never received any reply or acknowledgement, of course.