This takes a lot of gall, for someone to stand up to a Church and claim that they are wrong for believing in the bible and holding the congregation to that belief…..

I can just hear her on Judgement Day, ‘Lord, I want to tell you that you are just wrong on the following items….’ this is the point where the ground will split open and swallow her up.

“Genetic or chemical predispositions” to a variety of vices again diverts blame from the “victim.”

Returning to the Catholic Church’s sex scandal, Ms Goodman is obviously clueless that this IS a HOMOSEXUAL ISSUE – Most of the claims of “abuse” are against homosexual priests – not heterosexual priests. So where is the moral outrage? It’s focused on the Church, not on the gay issue.

I could not agree with you more about Ellen Goodman if I tried. She has been irrelevant for years. The only place that would put up with her diatribes is someplace like Boston, someplace that would put up with Teddy Kennedy and JF Kerry. The rest of the country where there are standards that mean something just would not even put her in the newspaper.

But now we find ourselves hectored by the shrews of “political correctness” who hypocritically tell us what we must accept and reject and all in the name of “diversity.”

Ellen Goodman and her sorry sorority of elitist sisters and their girly-men tagalongs would drive religion from “the public square” because it might be offensive to the homeless or people who sleep with goats.

For people like Goodman, right and wrong and good and evil are all transitory. They loathe all the little minded people who cleave to moral standards based on the Judeo-Christian heritage.

Goodman could not make a greater ass of herself than to demand that the Pope and Roman Catholic Church get with her program. Shall we consider the Pope and his church goners now that the mighty Goodman has spoken?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=celibate has as definition one “One who abstains from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows.”

You can I think entirely reasonably claim that a celibate priesthood is a stupid idea and so on but since the catholic church seems to be keen on celibacy it only seems fair that it should apply equally to homosexuals and heterosexuals.

Actually I believe that if the seminarian has been chaste for a certain period of time (3 years) they let him stay.

I don’t want to scapegoat anyone. I myself was abused by a Catholic priest as a teenager and I am female. But if the facts sustain rational discrimination, then the needs and safety of Catholic male teenagers is what must be safeguarded.

I am very frustrated with the denial of the actual problem, which the Vatican has honestly sought to address. Even advocate groups for priest abuse victims continue to condemn the bishops for the sex abuse problem, while in the interests of PC, choose to side step the root cause of the crisis, which the facts show is homosexuality, not pedophilia. The vctim advocacy groups refuse to recognize the problem which is very discouraging to me.