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"I was, and always will be, a Catholic priest, but I cannot presently be the priest I was We do not need a solution to the birth-control problem We need freedom from a legalistic Church that has transformed the simplicity of a personal and Christian love into a world of fear and guilt We do not know how to find God, we have never learned We have only been taught to keep laws, to avoid sin, to fear hell, to carry a cross that we built ourselves No longer can I stand before my bishop and smile in shy assent when I know he is wrong No longer will I bow before a pastor when I know his mood has formed the policy of his Church No longer will I accept in silence the travesties that a dishonest theology has imposed on...
This section contains 763 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |