Opinion
The Catholic Church should put its own house in order
Posted Thursday, March 26 2009 at 18:46
Is a female to be nothing but a vessel for a man’s sperm?
Witness the shocking case of the nine-year-old girl in Brazil whose family and doctors were ex-communicated because the foetus was aborted.
No compassion was shown for the girl, traumatised and subjected to incest, yet meant to bring up another child though not past childhood herself.
“Abortion is a greater crime than rape,” declared the church, defying years of worldwide struggle for equal rights, and minimising the effect of sexual violence on young people who have placed all their trust in adults who are in loco parentis.
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Submitted by mogofaloPosted March 28, 2009 01:00 AM
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Submitted by gabbysteve
The CATHOLIC CHURCH has already put her house in order by simply saying it's not advocating for use of condoms. This ought to be followed to the letter. You need not mix issues of individual priciples and doctrines of the church. Which came first, HIV or condom? Condom! Even before HIV, the music was the same, "stop use of condoms" This is not going to change as God is not going to change. Simply, those who are not married should wait to marry and those married already to have the obligation only with their partner (spouse only).
Posted March 27, 2009 06:55 PM -
Submitted by Jellyfish
Betty you are dead wrong. Did you see this article on the East African? "UNAIDS and myth of condoms efficacy against AIDS" posted on 7th of february 2009 by Curtis Abraham. http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/525956/-/rku48lz/-/index.html. To say that the scientific community is in agreement is disingeneous to say the least. If you need more scientific info on how ineffective condoms are I would be happy to furnish you with more.
Posted March 27, 2009 06:22 PM -
Submitted by mzeengunga
Betty is correct and I just hope that soon and soon enough the church will rise up to the challenge, face the problems of today with today's solutions. All churches, catholic and other christian faiths alike, have failed their flock and each should kneel to God and beg for forgivenss. If only the tenets of the church were followed to the letter HIV would not be finishing us this way. The pope should apologise and call on God for help!
Posted March 27, 2009 04:13 PM -
Submitted by musyokaj
Betty instead of singling out the Catholics, you may need to consider the fact that the whole of Christian doctrine is biased against women, contrary to the words and behaviour of its founder. And much more against the roots of the one-God belief as preached in the Torah, Bible and Quoran - Africa. We are not expected to think, feel or aspire. Mary is white, yet we know she had relatives in Africa. Note that the blood that Jesus shed on the cross is Mary's because spirits have no blood! Yet Mary is marginalized in the church.
Posted March 27, 2009 07:42 AM
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Maybe the pope should not be the enormous moral authority across the global culture that he is. The pope believes that a myth about the existence of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth is; the truth about the existence of one totality that we all share. To claim that myth is truth as he does is to lie to the many of our global culture.