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In reply to the discussion: Hey Catholic Cut-n-Runners: Come Back, Now. DU, Your Country, and World Need You. [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)22. and the hierarchy is very vocal about such things
but most local priests in this country don't discuss them. I went to Catholic school and had sex education class in which condoms were passed around. My grandmother, who dutifully want to mass every week, said her parish priest told her birth control was a matter of one's own conscience.
Prism, a gay DUer, grew up in the Catholic church and says he never recalls his parish priest every talking about homosexuality.
My eighth grade teacher, Sister Jackie Slater, was an activist for gay rights in the 1970s and 80s, when people here were still using homophobic slurs as a matter of course.
My point is the everyday experience of being a Catholic is often very different from what one hears from the church hierarchy in the media.
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Hey Catholic Cut-n-Runners: Come Back, Now. DU, Your Country, and World Need You. [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
OP
truly this coronation of a new pope has us all a bit on edge it would seem.
Phillip McCleod
Mar 2013
#5
It's his statements, pre-employment as pope, about things like same sex marriage.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2013
#25
Thanks Manny, we need all the liberal hands on deck, The problem appears to be
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#24
Yeah those evil nuns on their busses and catholic charities that feed the poor suck!
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#40
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer is good advice, but it is predicated on the
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#42
Jewish, which is to say agnostic with side orders of argument and pastrami.
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
#45
Don't worry, I'm not cutting and running... I am getting sharper elbows, though!
reformist2
Mar 2013
#46
I think it's because the media has just had wall-to-wall "the pope is important" coverage
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#53