The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3743304
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Oct-15 - 10:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
I would point out, just in case, that I was not quoting that website to further my argument about the Church's position but to show the lack of clarity about what Catholics should and shouldn't be doing. This notion of saying something vague and circumlocutory in a catechism, or in Humanae Vitae, or anywhere else, in order to conceal the real feet-dragging dinosaur inside, placing all the onus on the flock who are then frequently at the mercy of priestly middlemen, displays a basic dishonesty. Many millions of Roman Catholics are simple souls who need to have things put to them in simple, straightforward language. It wouldn't hurt the cleverer ones either, come to think of it. We're not all products of years in a seminary or lengthy courses in theology and philosophy.