RE: Anyone suffering from things they learned in the church?
June 12, 2014 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2014 at 4:42 pm by Vox.)
(June 12, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I'm still suffering in the sense that, I know an organization as heartless and corrupt as the Catholic Church exists. And people sincerely believe they are a force for good and are actively supporting them.
They've been abusing and neglecting children for thousands of years before I was born.
And they'll be abusing and neglecting children for thousands of years after I die.
Its a burden that only brain damage and/or death will lift.
You may not have to wait long Welshcake. I actually don't want to see the Catholic Church die, for all it's negatives it has a number of positive attributes as well but a Schism is very much on the horizon.
There's a synod of Bishops meeting later this year to discuss doctrines concerning priestly celibacy and remarried divorcees . A lot of Catholics are very displeased with the establishment, and if they don't leave with what they want some commentators are suggesting we may be looking at Reformation 2.0 (Hans Kung goes into it in some detail in his book "Can we save the Catholic Church").
I honestly struggle to believe it would be of that scale, people generally just ignore the church rather than fight it these days but it is indicative of how irritable even the faithful are getting over teaching and leadership. Latest pew reports said something like 53% of Catholics in the US are for gay marriage and 85% of them used condoms. Somethings gotta give
