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I GOTTA BE ME? WELL, SOME FOLKS DO…...

It seems to be a particular characteristic of our adolescence-celebrating culture that not only should each of us be able to do whatever we want, but that there should be no negative consequences for whatever choice we happen to make…...what’s that about, anway?

But, some brave and principled individuals will actually argue against their peers, and risk all the abuse that goes with that…..in addition to arguing against what MANY would call “their own interests”. Why?

Perhaps because they value truth more than comfort?

In any case, I think they should be celebrated, and so here’s my contribution to that end…..

Anyone who has been conscious during the last several years knows that the Vatican has been fiercely criticized for not taking a stronger stand to protect young boys against predatory priests, most prominently here in the U.S.

At least partly in response, the Vatican prepared and recently released a document for seminary leaders, with instructions aimed at limiting the access of practicing homosexuals to training for the priesthood. With this official document came an article, published in the Vatican newspaper, commenting on the document and defending its reasoning.

This has caused a great deal of discussion and condemnation, and most of it was pretty predictable—find out something about the person commenting, and you had a pretty good chance of knowing what they were going to say—but not all.

Eve Tushnet, a lesbian lady, writes:

More crucially, one of the most beautiful and hopeful doctrines of the Catholic Church is the distinction between behavior and worth. You aren’t valuable because you have never screwed up, or because everything you do and believe is right. You’re valuable because you were created by a God Who loves you, Who cherishes you and longs for you. If you take every chastisement based on behavior as an attack on your personal worth, you are
a) a Pelagian (believing people get saved because they’re so cool and
special) and/or
b) rejecting the possibility that God sees past your behavior, sees down to
the core of you, wants you, loves you, but doesn’t ever agree that
everything you do is right.

God is not an idolater. God’s constant lament to His beloved is, “Baby, don’t be that way!”

READ the whole thing

THEN, scroll up the page and read some of the followup. GREAT stuff!!

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