That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
Certainly, it is difficult to make the demands of the Gospel understandable to secularized people. But this pastoral difficulty must not lead to compromises with the truth.
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
Canonist Edward Peters attacks the imprecision of the piece Divorced and Remarried are Called to Heroism - to which I had linked yesterday. The criticism sis well-worth reading.
An interesting pastoral letter from the high priest Caiaphas which satires the silence of the post-Vatican II Church on important issues.
Distinctions Matter
Distinctions Matter Forward
Missale Romanum
Pre-1951 Calendar