Catholic sexual teaching is like a rambling, cracking old building, and its foundations lie in a quagmire of ancient fear, misogyny, rejection of the body and denial of pleasure. The structure is so unsound that a threat to any part of it is perceived as a threat to the whole. Therefore contraception must be repeatedly denounced, women kept away from the altar, remarried people excluded and gay people silenced or sacked. The shakier things get, and the more absurd and unjust they become, the more fiercely the bishops stamp their crosiers. They, too, are trapped in the deceptions and contradictions. Yet change lies ahead, and it will not be denied. […]

I can’t wait.
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