Here’s the sound byte from the linked article below:
The Archdiocese of Cologne has just under 1.9 million Catholics, KNA reported. More than 1,700 people — about .09 percent of archdiocesan Catholics — took part in the nonrepresentative online survey, “Tell the pope — what should the future of the church look like?” They submitted more than 5,400 contributions and 1,200 comments.
The survey results were summarized by an agency in accordance with social science standards. The findings showed that respondents favored a “separation of powers as in democracies” instead of “priest-centeredness.” In addition, people of all sexual orientations and those who had been married several times should feel fully accepted in the faith community, respondents said.
Same-sex couples should be entitled to be blessed and married in the church, and divorced Catholics should be allowed to marry in the church again, the survey showed. Respondents also demanded an admission of guilt by the church for the “discrimination and personal injury of nonheterosexual people.”
A person’s gender and sexual orientation should not affect their ability to serve in church ministries, respondents said. Also, “women as well as trans people should be able to hold all ordained offices in their calling.” In the future, respondents said, priestly celibacy should be voluntary rather than obligatory.
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In other words let’s canonize my personal failures and forget the ideal and Divine
So why not simply convert to Lutheranism?
These disgruntled "Catholics" are more than likely my age and older and a tiny minority in terms of the number of Catholics in that archdiocese. That they are given so much press and time lets you know the agenda and that progressives will do anything they can to corrupt the Catholic Church and make it into a "different" Church to coin Pope Francis' usage.
Father McDonald,
The worst lefties are in their 70s and 80s, many of whom went to Catholic schools and colleges. This is their last temper tantrum before they depart the earth. Somehow, people like you and me have retained what they have lost.
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