Raising the Curtain on the USCCB Mtg: Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Raising the Curtain on the USCCB Mtg: Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: It was not child sex abuse where the faithful stopped listening to the Bishops, it was Humanae Vitae.  The papacy and the USCCB are badly staffed on all things sexual, which is why most of the bishops really don't want the bad news that the conversation with the laity will bring.  Indeed, hierarchists hate bad news and they certainly don't shame eachother into doing what is right on the Dallas Charter.  As far as marriage, they need to prayerfully reflect on the Church's role in causing the call for same sex marriage to occur.  Had Catholic hospitals not botched how they treated long time companions in situations of extremis, there would have been less of a call for a legal solution.  Now that marriage is opening the doors for family support of these unions, it will be Catholic families rather than the state that will call for the Church to celebrate gay weddings - as it did before 1000 AD.  As for the legality of physician assited suicide - St. Thomas More seems to disagree with the bishops in his Utopia.  What I am surprised at is that immigration reform did not make the top 5 things to address.  It should be number one!