It amazes me that some of the loudest and most outraged voices against the scandalous allegations against priests are, themselves, dissenters from Catholic morality. Indeed, they may ridicule as ridiculous or erroneous what has been long-standing moral teaching from both Scripture and Tradition. They presume that as modern men and women, they have a special enlightenment that those in the past, and certainly churchmen, did not possess on human sexuality. Of course, what they are actually attacking is the protective role of the Holy Spirit in the life and teachings of the Catholic faith.
They cite as proof the fact that most contemporary men and women have walked away from the regular practice of the faith. They look upon Church practices and doctrine as antiquated, especially in areas of sexual morality. Unfortunately, what is left unexamined is the heightened preoccupation of modernity with matters of gender and sexual expression. Ours is an eroticized environment, immediately hostile to orthodox Catholic values, especially about the human person, the body and sexual expression.
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