The New Judas

Disclaimer: I am Roman Catholic so I reserve the right to unabashedly insult and criticize my own Church: Starting with this little diddy in today's AJC...

"Atlanta Archbishop John F. Donoghue put local Roman Catholic churches in the middle of the presidential race last week, declaring politicians who support abortion rights should be denied Holy Communion."

Dear Father: Please keep your goddamned nose out of politics. The brightest idea the founding fathers had was that separation of Church and State and I can't go around bashing Bush for his line-crossing if you sit there saying the same thing. Also, this points to another issue I've previously discussed, and that is, abortion is not your decision either.

Keeping on this religious theme, I should take a moment to es-plane my theo-notions. I happen to be what one could call a "progressive" Catholic (a good friend of mine who happens to be gay and his partner, who happens to be an ex-Communicated Catholic priest, gave me that term.) Progessive Catholics believe whole-heartedly that the Church needs to rethink some things. The first Nicean councils were held in the 3rd and 4th centuries. These come to Jesus meetings were held to determine certain critical aspects of Church dogma. Then, almost 1500 years later the Church had another Council. It was kinda like the Pope and the Bishops said, "Shit, we haven't had a pow-wow in a while. Let's hook up and shoot the shit and change some stuff to keep those lemmings on their toes." But as far as I remember from Catechism, all they decided to do hear was eliminate the requirement for Mass in Latin and that women had to wear head covers. My point is that I (and many others) think a lot has happened since JC walked the earth and the Church needs to really reconsider some very important issues. Some of those topics include:

Christ's marital state (more on this in another blog)
Women as priests
Homosexuality as moral sin
Abortion
Birth Control
Priest's celibacy
... and there are plenty of others, but getting back to my bud, Archbishop Donoghue, apparently there weren't a bunch of folks at Mass yesterday backing him up so I do feel a little relieved.

Just so I don't appear as a total heretic, I do believe in most of the fundamental Church doctrine, just not some of the ideas that the ancient men chose have us follow. In other words, I believe in the rules, not the guidelines.

I guess I need to start watching out for lighting bolts.