The Catholics I know tend to pick and choose their beliefs, rather than strictly adhere to church doctrine. After all, how many Catholic families today have 10 or 12 children? With so many western families opting for just one or two kids, it seems clear that most Catholics (at least in Canada) refuse to abide by the church’s ban on birth control.

Nevertheless, the church is so strongly opposed to the use of birth control that officials are actually divided on whether to allow married couples to use condoms when one partner is infected with HIV or AIDS.

It’s precisely this line of thinking that has us at odds with the Catholic church.

Call us liberal extremists, but we don’t believe it’s immoral for a married couple struggling to have a baby to undergo in-vitro fertilization (providing neither spouse qualifies as a senior citizen).

Call us radicals, but we don’t see the harm in same-sex marriage. And if priests want to get married, what’s the big deal?

The biggest blight on the Catholic church, however, has to be the sex abuse scandals that have plagued the dioceses in recent years.

Okay, I know this is a longer quote than usual, but I wanted to illustrate the randomness and more importantly the ignorance of the editorialist. This person claims both she and her husband were both raised in Catholic schools as well as in the Church. Yet they somehow managed to completely miss all the REASONS that the Church teaches what she teaches. Instead, the editorialist focuses on all the stuff she disagrees with. The answers to the questions are out there, but all she includes is a salvo of objections to Church teaching. Ultimately, I think the child of these people is better off than if there were raised in a setting where they go to Mass and then rip Catholic theology to shreds on the way home.