Had a glance at this and am tempted to say: This from a man who adheres to a Church that came about because of a man who wanted his own way..with women...and beheaded two of his six wives? But I will be charitable and less flippant ! But coming from a man from a state which has just legalised killing... assisted suicide... at the same time denying cash for palliative care services to the original owners of this land, our indigenous brothers and sisters in the more remote areas of the state? Sitting around pontificating about the Catholic Church's failures while allowing extra judicial killing in his state to take hold? Now that seems to be skewed thinking to me. I mean, it isn't as if the scandal of sexual deviancy and crimes in the Catholic Church hasn't escaped widespread scrutiny... and witnessed senior Catholics clerics jailed... on however flimsy evidence...the whole foundation of our judicial system turned upside down to accommodate such incarceration... the responsibility for the prosecutor to prove guilt ..not the accused to prove innocence. The Catholic Church which includes the laity as well as the clerics, with the grace of God, will weed out the evil within it." Behold, I am with you all days even until the end of the world." And encourage the embrace and beauty of of chastity ..for the hetero and homo sexually inclined...for clerics as well as the laity..all the time loving and welcoming those who stumble along the way..without the help of a Hollywood actor earning mega bucks..and no doubt without any real concern about the gravity of the bad example given to the faithful, especially the young, within the Church. Meanwhile writers with the profile of a Peter Sellick need to enhance their credibility by taking to the streets to demand Mark McGowan's assisted suicide legislation stops before it starts. That is the urgency now.. not this endless preoccupation with sex and the Catholic Church!

I'm all in on cardinal sarah being the next pope,

Denny,
Is there a chance that you are a white man living in Australia? If so, you are so completely discredited by the history of colonialism in this country you have no right to speak about any other subject other than your own shame.

Your truly
Peter.
(admitted miserable creature)

'It is impossible for the Church to maintain its position on sexual acts now that the sexual activities of priests towards minors and the concentration of same sex attracted men at the highest offices of the Vatican has been revealed'

dear oh dear, what sick reasoning. Judas was a thief so that means that the 'church' must embrace thieving as acceptable. Peter obviously has not used any of his biology knowledge to see that men were not designed to have sex with men.

Looks like COVID-19 is not only killing people, it makes some even more insipid !

Proposing the gospels as a form of art; then conflating the art form into acceptance of homosexuality, then downplaying the sin it is, with the add-mixture of divorce, is simply giving the argument and the act, poetic license.

Homosexuality is problematic in the Catholic Church, since the vast majority of its child abuse victims (87% by some studies), were adolescents, not young children.
So the proof is in the pudding here.

Homosexuality is a sinful act from a Christian perspective, whereas heterosexuality is not. Connecting the two is incongruous, and will forever remain so.

Dan