Not long after our Holy Father, the Great John Paul II's death the statist American media began its assault on the Catholic Church. Anti-Church Catholics like Chris Matthews, Andrew Sullivan, including preists who hate their Church all have criticized John Paul and the Church for "squashing" the debate on contraception, women priests, and homosexuality. Of course none of these things are, nor can be up for debate in the Church as they are considered part of the deposit of faith and reconciled to the Gospel. Issues like these within the Church are as undebatable as the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, Marian doctrines, and Papal infallibility, precisely because they are dogmas of the Church. Dogmas are beliefs required of the faithful.
Now one thing that can be debated in the Church are things like disciplines, of course the Pope has the authority to decide the outcome of such debates. Priestly celibacy is one of those disciplines in the Roman rite that has not always been in place and can change under the Magisterial authority of the Church. What the Magisterial authority can not change is the dogma or doctrine of the Church.
It is scandalous that these Anti-Church Catholics go on the television to spread error and mislead the public, for they are further confounding an already confounded American Catholic laity.
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