apologize unambiguously<\/a> and make amends for what’s gone on up to now.<\/p>\n(2) Advocate greater tolerance for minority sexual persuasions in society at large (of the homosexual kind, not of the pedophilic kind that resulted from the Church’s public suppression and private enabling of the former). Or at least stop advocating against such tolerance and acceptance.<\/p>\n
(3) Allow priests to marry, just as the Eastern Rite Catholic churches have done for centuries, with little apparent harm.<\/p>\n
(A fourth step, only a little less directly related, would be to open positions of religious authority up to women as well.)<\/p>\n
That way, wouldn’t Catholicism be able to get back to modeling the right ways to practice Christian (brotherly, and sisterly) love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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