Catholics and Liberals

Good Morning!

I was not overly surprised to read in today's Globe that the new Popenfuhrer has come out and condemned gay marriage...after all, the church opposes that sort of thing, and he's the leader of the church, right? I suppose they're within their rights to tell the membership what they think.

But the statement he made is extraordinary from a liberal point of view. I was so stunned by what he said, I just sat there and stared at the printed page, reading it over and over to make sure I saw it right. Here it is, verbatim: ''The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man,"

Go ahead. Read it again. "Expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for the True Freedom of Man". I don't know about you, but where I come from, the true freedom of man means that each individual should have the right to choose for himself what's best for himself, his family, and his loved ones, without government, religious, or other interference. What our new pope is telling all Catholics, is that the "true freedom of man" is the right to be subservient to the whims of one man in Rome that is increasingly out of touch with the modern world.

I hate to use a movie analogy, but if you've just seen Revenge of the Sith, you know that Chancellor Palpatine continually harps on the theme that once people are in power, they'll do anything to hold onto that power...this is exactly what this seems to be to me. What's the pope afraid of?

It's becoming obvious to me that you can't be a liberal and a Catholic...it's increasingly apparent that these are two conflicting views. So the choice is yours. Do we do what's right for ourselves, our families, and society, or do we continue to be subservient to the will of one "infallible" man?