The Times Online offers advice to the Catholic Church on how to solve its "crisis":
Best way forward< sarc >Because denominations with women priests are so healthy and vibrant. < /sarc >
Bring in married priests and women priests. End ban on artificial contraception. Rescind doctrine of papal infallibility. Restore teaching licence to the dissident theologian Hans Kung. Issue papal letters of apology and cash compensation to all child abuse victims and banned liberation theologians. Make the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith a paperless office and speed up discipline by better use of modern technology. Put Opus Dei in charge of all Church communications. Apologise profusely
In fact, every denomination that went in the direction that the Times is recommending by instituting the ordination of women and liberalizing doctrine - e.g., the Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and, most especially, the Episcopalians - have suffered a precipitious drop in membership - in excess of 50% - over the last 30 years.
It's not like the data isn't there for anyone with some curiosity to see if these proposals actually, you know, work!
Secularist reasoning is so charmingly faith-based. They have their ideology and they see what they want and ignore the results.
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The grimly amusing part is that only two of the modest proposals have any possible direct impact on the pedophilia scandals. The rest is a liberal wish list.
And while you're dreaming, ask for a pony.
Because if there is one thing that will bring people back to the church it is reinstating Hans Kung's teaching license!!!!
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