How Bishops Speak | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: What scares Nienstedt is that the people are way ahead of him in compassion for gays and lesbians - indeed his own largely gay priesthood may begin blessing gay unions quietly. They might even seek to join one and therefore leave the clergy. THAT is what is giving them nightmares, as well as the fear that the Magisterium is not as infallible as they all hope it is.
As for Catholic institutions, what they bemoan most is the loss of slave labor by sisters and nuns in Catholic parochial schools, which has caused them to either be elite, close or be turned into charter schools. God forbid they try to pay teachers more (even unionized ones) while leaving tuition prices low enough for all parish families to afford.
As far as critisizing the enlightment, that is a fools errand and has been since Vatican II essentailly wrote an enlightenment version of freedom of thought and religion into the dogma of the Church. There is no going back from that, regardless of how many John Paul II priests wish to.
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