As a Catholic, I do not take the time to visit other denominations with the sole purpose of attempting to undermine their theological beliefs - whether or not I agree with them.

How many Catholics do you know who engage in such organized attacks against other denominations with the intention of forcing them to change their doctrine?

So why is it large numbers of heterodox cafeteria Catholics and hostile non-Catholics can, time and again, try to change OUR beliefs.

And - more to the point - why is it these liberal types who are attempting to find "equality" for people like me (a Catholic woman) and those living with SSA chastely (according to Church teaching) never, EVER bother to ask us why we believe the Church's teachings on the priesthood and sexuality are correct?

Why don't they want our opinions?!

Isn't it a little...I don't know...what's the word...condescending of them to speak for us, acting as if they know what's best for us without listening to our opinion?  Don't they accuse the Catholic Church of "not listening" to us when they DON'T LISTEN TO US EITHER?!

I'm a Catholic because I believe the teachings of the Church to be 100% accurate.  I do not believe my worth or sense of equality as a woman is compromised because I cannot be ordained a priest.  Holy Orders are NOT a sacrament for me.  I can fully partake in all the other sacraments.  I am not oppressed or marginalized.

Neither are a majority of the women in the Church who profess the same beliefs as I.  Yet our voices are never heard or considered by those who consider themselves our "betters" and who know what's "fair" for us...

What I should do is get the opinions of my like-minded Catholic sisters and write a book about it.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

that the church they want already exists.  It's called the Anglican Church and/or the Episcopal Church*.  In these you can have all the homosexual acts and women priests you want.  Aside from the fact that the first is wrong and that the second is impossible, there is no need for the Catholic Church to adopt either practice - - it's already covered.  So, stop trying to make the Catholic Church into something it cannot, will not and need not be.  Oh, by the way, why don't you (LA Times) try actually reporting some news for a change.  That's a something that is actually possible (but not very likely).

* Yes, I know there are Anglicans and Episcopalians who reject homosexuality and women's ordination.  I thank God for them and pray for them to come home!

The LAT, like many other newspapers, blogs sites, senior liberal
Episcopalians/Anglicans and the usual uninformed media types insist
that the Catholic Church is misogynistic and anti-feminist:

Protestants, including Anglicans and Episcopalians need to make up
their mind: Are Catholics “scared of the feminine”, or are they
“heretics and extra/ contra biblical” for having accorded to a woman
(only) i.e.Mary,the Mother of Jesus, a "Divine status", through their
Mariology or the teachings about Mary? Furthermore, what about the
status it has given to women in its Canons of Saints, like the Saints
Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila and Theresa of Liseaux, all
accorded the rank of Doctors of the Church, a status equivalent to that
of Saint Augustine, St.Thomas Aquinas and St.Jerome.? Can they point to
women like those,with the same status, in their traditions?. Do they
know or have they even heard of them? What about the hundreds and
hundreds of other women saints, many of them Martyrs for the Faith, who
are held up by the Church as exemplars of courage,commitment, honour, virtue and sanctity and to be honoured, imitated and emulated by all Catholics, men and
women? Are they aware that the church was the first organisation in
western civilisation to deliberately place ordinary base-born women,(as
against accident of aristocratic birth) in positions of power and
influence as Heads of Religious Orders (many exerting influence on the
Regulation and Rules of Orders of monks and priests e.g. Descalced
Carmelites), Heads of Abbeys, convents,priories,etc. with authority
over Religious regulation and rules, and also over lands, property and
with significant responsibility for regional administration in both church and civil matters?
In the two thousand years of its existence the Church has never
ordained women to the ranks of the priesthood because it does not have
authority from Christ to do so: He only ordained men as priests.He was very close to and reached out to women during the
course of his Mission on earth, disregarding many of the
contemporary mores of male/female interaction  in the process. Therefore His decision to only appoint men as priests was very deliberate. Particularly at Mass, the peak and epitome of the
sacerdotal role, the priest stand in “Loco Christi”,that is in the
“place of Christ” who called Himself the “Bridegroom” (a male
term) while the Church was His “Bride” (a female term).”

The thought of many Liberal Cafeteria “Roman Catholic brothers and
sisters, both lay and ordained, conservative and liberal, who wish to
belong to a church that treasures diversity of thought.” moving over to
the Anglican/Episcopalian Church is something to be regretted: Its
always sad and a cause for sympathetic head-shaking to see someone
trading down from the Rolls Royce versions to the current models with
the inbuilt obsolescence that goes with the current fad. However it has
the great moral advantage of making honest people of them because it
will force them at last to admit to themselves publicly what their
position really is. No organisation has any need for fifth columnists.
As Jesus Himself said, a “house divided against itself will not
survive” so these people moving out will be an act of purification for
the Catholic Church and it will make it stronger. God certainly moves
in mysterious ways.

As to homosexuality: By definition and practically a bolt is made up of a nut and a screw. It would be the height of stupidity therefore for anyone to declare that either two nuts alone or two screws alone form 
a bolt. Were the law to say so then, as we say, "the law is an ass!". Nothing,
absolutely nothing, and no authority whatsoever either in heaven or on
earth, in defiance of the laws of physics and engineering and
every scientific and natural principle can ever establish  or prove that two nuts alone or two screws alone are capable of performing the functions of a bolt. The same principles apply to same sex relationships and couplings.!! God does NOT contravene His Own rules, principles and purposes!!! He
does not bless or sanctify any action or activity which falls outside the
purpose, and cannot fulfil the functions, of His own creation. Simple really,
under all the rules of nature, science, biology and of God.

Patrick Kennedy is in trouble in Providence. No, that one will come later. This is about what the bishop of the Diocese of Providence wrote to Kennedy in response to statements Kennedy made that the Church's opposition  to any health care plan that includes coverage for abortions is a "red herring." The bishop wrote: "Congressman Patrick Kennedy's statement about the Catholic Church's position on health care reform is irresponsible and ignorant of the facts. But the Congressman is correct in stating that "he can't understand." He got that part right." [Ouch]

 More here: Jill Stanek - Patrick Kennedy blasts Catholic Church for blocking pro-abortion healthcare: "I thought they were pro-life" and here Jill Stanek - Smackdown: Patrick Kennedy's bishop calls him "ignorant... a disappointment"

"Jesus said nothing about homosexuality."

Uh, that's because nobody thought to ask....

But seriously, Jesus of Nazereth also said nothing about rape.  So what of it?

That said, Christ, the creator of the world and of marriage, spoke quite plainly on the nature of marriage.  He also endowed man with an intellect, one capable of deductive reasoning (i.e., from the general to the particular), something that appears to have atrophied with the LAT.

"Steady."  -- Keith Olbermann to Chris Matthews