If one of my links persistently does not work ("No DNS entry" or "Address not Found"), or if you know of a location of non-grey htmlized encyclicals of Pope John Paul II (besides New Advent), please email me with details.

Now, although I do provide links to short treatments of these kinds of problems, I cannot answer email on these histories as such. Again, this page is about the truth of Catholic teaching and about the knowable mysteries which God has revealed.

So if a scandalous pope, apostle or priest has troubled your faith, your real issue is what you think your faith is in, which is a matter of faith and reason.

Or if you think that it is alright to do immoral things sometimes for the greater good, even if only for rape victims, I would like to hear where you draw the line and why.

If you are a Christian and take issue to a hierarchy of Apostles or their successors dealing with the question, please also see the Menu of Statements of Beliefs and read the Gospel of Matthew, especially chapters 18-23.

I get so much email, I must request these things. Have you done what I requested? Yes. No.

I get so much email, I must request this. Have you done what I requested? Yes. No.

In the case of married priests, please remember that the calling of the priest is to be a living sign of Christ, exactly. The world needs most to be contradicted when it says that we cannot live or be mentally healthy without at least one sexual relationship at a time. Since the world demands it, the Church needs more than ever to contradict it in action. Priests can still have intimacy of love of different kinds, with God and with friends. If you insist that it would be prudent to allow it sometimes, I say it is allowed sometimes; it is merely rare. Also, this is not a matter of faith and morals, since Catholicism is not tied to the practice as dogma. This being the case, I already share your oppinion that it be allowed sometimes, and the Church officially agrees with you.

In the case of Women priests, by all means email me, but first please read my bit on faith and reason very seriously. Remember also that Jesus did not propagate any social sins of his time; he never sinned no matter what the pressure or consequences. This is described in the document on Women Priests available here. Please give this a careful read before emailing me.

I get so much email, I must request these things. Have you done what I requested? Yes. No.

If you are a Christian who thinks that the Church has gone too far in agreeing with scientific theories, please see my answer to you in my pages on Biblical "errors" down to the treatments of Genesis 1-2.

If you are a non-Christian who believes that the Church is not in tune enough with progress, you probably have a certain issue in mind such as abortion, married priests, etc. Instead of emailing me here about it, please check out what I offer you already for as defense on these issues, and home in on that treatment here first.

Either way, I finally ask that you read Chesterton's insight into the Paradoxes of Christianity.

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