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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (17136)	6/19/2001 10:22:06 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I suspect that the infallibility question is going to become a major problem to the Catholic hierarchy very soon, but contraception will not be the issue. The current infallible doctrine states that priests must be unmarried and celibate, and that women cannot be ordained. The practical reality is that unless the Church alters one or both of these doctrines, it will soon begin to crumble for want of priests. There are very few men who are willing to become celibate for life for the sake of the church, and too many of those that are willing are the ones that weren't much interested in women to begin with, and who end up running parishes where the altar boys walk a little awkwardly. It will be interesting to see what the church does when it has to choose between changing an "infallible" but clearly self-destructive doctrine and watching the collapse of its own edifice.