Karlysymon
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"My five years in the priesthood, even in its most liberal wing, gave me a fetid taste of this caste system. Clericalism, with its cult of secrecy, its theological misogyny, its sexual repressiveness, and its hierarchical power based on threats of a doom-laden afterlife, is at the root of Roman Catholic dysfunction. The clerical system’s obsession with status thwarts even the merits of otherwise good priests and distorts the Gospels’ message of selfless love, which the Church was established to proclaim. Clericalism is both the underlying cause and the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic catastrophe. I left the priesthood 45 years ago, before knowing fully what had soured me, but clericalism was the reason."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/to-save-the-church-dismantle-the-priesthood/588073/
and
https://jaysanalysis.com/2010/04/19/what-has-happened-to-the-catholic-church-in-one-easy-article/
The Atlantic piece is a long read but is abolishing the priesthood the best option at saving or reforming the Catholic Church and possibly stemming the endemic paedophilia?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/to-save-the-church-dismantle-the-priesthood/588073/
and
https://jaysanalysis.com/2010/04/19/what-has-happened-to-the-catholic-church-in-one-easy-article/
The Atlantic piece is a long read but is abolishing the priesthood the best option at saving or reforming the Catholic Church and possibly stemming the endemic paedophilia?