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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 RC Reform??!Papal fixation with sex upsets priestsSo says the article in yesterday's news. Think it means he's fixated on people not doing it, rather than some personal lechery. Most of Melbourne's Catholic priests are more disturbed by the Pope's attitude to sex issues than by unmarried couples or homosexuals living together, according to a leading Melbourne priest. They believe the Pope's "excessive" devotion to Mary undermines the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and that bishops are out of touch and "under the thumb of Rome", according to Father Eric Hodgens of St Bede's in North Balwyn. Father Hodgens says that most of the older priests in Melbourne "do not like the strong personality cult of the Pope and resent the bishops' sycophantic style of quoting him incessantly". Father Hodgens says these priests believe that the clericalism and triumphalism abandoned after the 1960s Vatican II council are being reinstated. These priests see the Pope's devotion to Mary as "excessive, pietistic and detrimental to placing Jesus Christ in the unquestioned centre of the Christian message of salvation", he says. Now, Roman Catholiscism (the system, as distinct from individual enlightened RC's) placing Jesus Christ in the centre of the gospel? That would be reform. But they've got 2000 years of entrenched history, and a formidable hierarchy to overcome. As a RC work colleague put it, these must be "hippy priests"! # posted by geoff @ 1:55 pm 0 comments
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