i. The Angry God: This image the institution projects of a God of Wrath and Anger needs to be challenged. It is wrong, and bad theology.
ii. The Male Church: Women have been marginalized and treated as second class by the institution for far too long.
iii. The Culture of Celibacy: Not so much celbacy per se but mandatory celibacy has to take a major part of the blame as a contributing cause of this crisis.
Anyone who Googles my site (tonyflannery.com) will see that I have been invaded by some crowd who are using my name to sell, of all things, Viagra!!!!!!
I have reported it to ActonBV, who manage the site for me, and hopefully it will be cleared up.
Tony
Young Catholics call for an authentic, empowering church
By Thomas Reese
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After a week-long meeting in Rome with Pope Francis, young Catholics called for an authentic and empowering church where they would feel welcomed.
The call came in a 16-page document approved by the 300 young people from all over the world who participated in a meeting preparing for the synod of bishops that will meet in October on the topic of “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.”
