Anyyone who reads today's Irish Times' report on the Vatican investigation into the Irish College in Rome will realise that the institutional church is simply at sea when it comes to matters of priestly formation and human sexuality.
Of course nothing is simple.
Cardinal Dolan refers to the dress of some seminarians.
What would the 'investigators' say about the 'dress' of those 'prancing' around at the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin this week?
They are terribly neat and tidy, indeed, 'immaculate'.
The 'investigators' comment on 'sloppy dress' sets a tone for an attitude that is most unhealthy in today's church.
Any attempt at linking a so-called liberal agenda with a 'gay culture' is trickery.
Surely there is a far greater link between a crazy conservative agenda, focused on ritual and 'incense' and a 'gay culture'.
Does a reading of history and an examination of the facts not tell a very different story than the one the 'investiigators' might like to disseminate.
Much coud be told that would tell a very different story.
Is it not as clear as day that a obsessive interest in clothing and ritual is a most worrying tendency, so visible and real among groups within the clerical state today.
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If the Archbishops have any courage, they will close the Irish College rather than allow Rome dictate in this disgusting fashion, which it had hoped to do in secret. In the same way, no priest who has any integrity should accept a post there and any who have been assigned should resign.
Sadly, of course, it is the same Dolan who is running the US Catholic Church potentially with his eye on a much higher post. Then we'll see how important dress becomes.
In tomorrow's Gospel we read how the little mustard seed grows into such a big shrub and the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.
What's happenig in the church is sad. Time will prove how wrong it is.
The Roman investigation into the Irish church is a hurful cover up.
To say that 'relativism' or a liberal theology is to blame for misbehaving priests is simply dishonest.
The serial clerical child sex abusers of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s were hardly influenced by a theology of 'relativism'.
What's happening is frightening too.
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