An open letter to the Catholic Church

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Dear Catholic Church,

Please consider this my official resignation. I am done with you.

I’ve long disagreed with your views on a lot of issues, not the least of which are your silly rules regarding the priesthood (boys only, no marriage allowed). But this, this was absolutely the last straw.

No gay priests, you say? Good luck with that.

Signed,

erin-go-blog

Argh. I find this offensive on many levels…but I’ll stick with what I find most offensive based on what I thought was the Church’s position on homosexuality. Homosexuality, they say, is not a sin unless it is acted upon. Since ALL priests are supposed to be celibate, how is a homosexual priest a problem? If it is a problem (and clearly it is for them), they’re either negating that idea that it is the action, and not the tendency toward it that is the sin, or saying that it’s impossible for a homosexual person to remain celibate. I have a problem with both.

Or perhaps they’re still trying to crawl out from under that rubble of the sex abuse scandal, thus (again) equating homosexuality with pedophilia. And we all know what I think about that.

Not that I think this will work, anyway…because it just means that seminaries will maintain a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Because really, how would you prove it? Will they keep people out on suspicion of homosexuality? I can’t wait to see them crying about the vocations crisis they have if this happens.

10 thoughts on “An open letter to the Catholic Church”

  2. I am furious about this. No married priests, no female priests, now no celibate gay priests. Pretty soon no more Catholic Church — men aren’t exactly beating down the seminary doors, after all.

  4. Yeah, well, I have a Catholic family, although I am not Catholic myself. (I’m not much of anything organized, and it looks like I’ll stay that way, thank you.) Time was when I was perfectly OK that my kids are being raised Catholic. But with every passing day, I resent it more and more. Luckily it looks like none of it is particularly inclined to stick, given some of their comments coming back from religious ed on Sundays.

  6. Just found you blog surfing. Funny coincidence, I just wrote something along the same lines. Anyway….bid farewell to the Catholics, but I hope you don’t toss Jesus out with the holy water.

  7. i hope u dont lose it all because of some people who dont share the same views because its said that the worst representation of the christian faith is through the church… so just because some of the church isnt corresponding with wut u think i hope u dont lose sumthing good because a bad taste

  8. The question I would have, vis a vis, protecting children and the abuse scandal, is this: Would eliminating men with homosexual inclinations cut down on this type of abuse, or not? My understanding is that the abuse cases are in the neighborhood of 70 percent relating to young males. Anything they can do to protect children is a good thing, IMO.

  9. erin,

    You clearly never believed that the Catholic Church is the church founded by Christ our Lord in the first place. If you did…you’d know that the church has a charism of truth by the power of the Holy Spirit and cannot err in matters of faith or morals.

    If you want to “Protest” against the church than by all means be “PROTESTant.”

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