Douthat Challenges RC Left | National Catholic Reporter

Douthat Challenges RC Left | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Douthat does not mention abortion - and as a liberal Catholic I would state that the best way to fight abortion is to make the economic reforms that both Pope Francis and BARACK OBAMA seem to be suggesting (capitalization meant to inflame).  As for Gay Marriage and the Ordination of Women - we don't advocate discussing these issues - we demand change and we will see it as the demand becomes large enough.  Let the philosophical defense involving the marital model of the priesthood (which is God is male suggests females only as priests) end.  It is sophistry and everyone below 50 pretty much gets it unless they are true defenders of the faith (or at least the status quo).  As for Church governance - it is time to adopt the Orthodox mode of autocephalic national patriarchs.  Let the local American patriarch rule on gay weddings, the election of bishops, the ownership of Church property (an issue made acute by the sex abuse scandal) and the ordination of women.  Hopefully that Patriarch is not Dolan.