Time to Clean Up The Catholic House in Brazil

Brazil is the world’s most populous Catholic country and The Roman Catholic Church welds a lot of power in here…

But in Brazil it is starting to look to many that the Roman Catholic Church in this country really needs to start getting the log out of it own eye before it gets the mote out of everyone else’s… And they need to do some cleaning of their house … before Brazilians come burn that house down for them…

In recent weeks here in Brazil, The Catholic Church has been doing it’s best to suppress personal freedom and has been going after anyone who dares speak out against religious discrimination against LGBT’s or is questioning of church doctrines in anyway…. And they have been doing it in some pretty heavy-handed and not altogether compassionate ways…

Last month a Brazilian bishop suspended a priest, Fr. Luiz Couto, who also happens to be a member of the Brazilian National Congress, for speaking out against discrimination aimed at gays and lesbians by saying… “We must struggle day by day against prejudice and intolerance,” and for questioning church doctrines about the use of contraceptives, when he said… “I defend the use of the condom as a matter of public health”.

Fr. Couto’s remarks were judged to be “intolerable” by the Archbishop, Aldo Pagotto, who presides over Couto’s diocese. Pagotto declared that, “As the head of the Archdiocese of Paraiba,” he was compelled to suspend the priest “from the use his orders in our ecclesiastical jurisdiction, because of his summary statements, which provoke confusion among the Christian faithful as long as they are not retracted explicitly,” adding that Fr. Couto’s comments contradict “the doctrinal, ethical, and moral orientations held by the Catholic Church.”

Archbishop Pagotto also said Fr. Couto’s support for a proposed “homophobia” law that would prohibit criticism of homosexual behavior and require that all organizations open to the public accept homosexuals as members would be getting him sent to hell straight away.

The Church in Brazil has a problem with other abnormalities and sins as well…

This month the Archbishop of Recife, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, excommunicated a mother who gave her permission to doctors to perform an abortion on her daughter after the nine-year-old girl got pregnant as the result of being raped by her stepfather.

Doctors believed that the nine-year-old was too small to have twins and that going ahead with the birth would have put her life in danger.

The local Catholic hierarchy tried to stop the procedure anyway (which is allowed in Brazil only in cases of rape or to save the life of the mother), but when it failed to do so, the local archbishop decided to excommunicate the girl’s mother and the doctors.

However, the archbishop didn’t excommunicate the stepfather who is in jail now.

Archbishop Sobrinho defended his action and when asked why he did not excommunicate the 23-year-old stepfather, Sobrinho said: “He committed an extremely serious crime. But that crime, according to canon law, is not punished with automatic excommunication.

“Human law has no value” when it’s contrary to God’s law, the archbishop explained.

Archbishop Sobrinho did not say how long he has been talking to God, but Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops at the Vatican must be talking with God too because he agreed with Sobrinho saying, … “Life must always be protected.”

And the Catholic Church tells me as a lesbian I am immoral?

Helloooo… did these palhaços miss the part that said a nine year old child was RAPED and would DIE?

Our president, Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva, didn’t and has criticized (only criticized mind you, and has not arrested Sobrinho and committed to the insane asylum where he clearly belongs) Archbishop Sobrinho and the Catholic Church for doing this, saying… “As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop has had such conservative behavior… In this case, medicine is more right than the Church.”

So I guess that President da Silva should probably expect to be excommunicated as well here pretty soon.

In Brazil, the 1980 census showed that 89 percent of residents described themselves as Catholic. Experts say that number has fallen to 70 percent of the population, and according to an official Catholic Church study, 600,000 of their faithful here in Brazil convert annually to a Protestant denomination or fall away from faith completely and are willing call themselves anything but Catholics….

Add in that Brazilians have not missed the pedophile priests scandals, complete with church cover ups, both in this country and around the world or that the church recently ex ex communicated a whole bunch of Neo Nazi priest’s who say the holocausts never happened, one of whom was recently deported by our neighbor Argentina, because they are not in to sheltering Nazis anymore, and one would not have to ask of this trend of Brazilians heading to other religions… Geewiz… I wonder just why that would be happening? (Sic)

Lezzie is half-closeted Brazilian Philosophy High School teacher writing on everything she has the opportunity to read, listen to and see (as a good Gemini).You can find out more about here by checking her profile at http://lezgetreal.ning.com/profile/Boudecca.

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