What percentage of the Catholic Church is white? What percentage is male? What percentage is over 65? What percentage is wealthy enough to dress in silken robes and jewelry? This image of the pope and his entourage should give you some glimpse of the problem with the church. The hierarchy consists (almost) exclusively of rich-old-white-guys who go around insisting everyone else do things their way. Sound like a reasonable plan to you? Any wonder why the 'morality' they preach is so exclusionary and oppressive?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
More Questions Prompted by Pictures of the Pope's Visit to Britain
What percentage of the Catholic Church is white? What percentage is male? What percentage is over 65? What percentage is wealthy enough to dress in silken robes and jewelry? This image of the pope and his entourage should give you some glimpse of the problem with the church. The hierarchy consists (almost) exclusively of rich-old-white-guys who go around insisting everyone else do things their way. Sound like a reasonable plan to you? Any wonder why the 'morality' they preach is so exclusionary and oppressive?
