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Really? \u00a0I had to read this article<\/a> three times, but it looks like Mr. Barnes is giving a major kudos to Andy Warhol over the fact that Warhol was at once openly homosexual, and celibate. \u00a0I know, Marc is a young man still getting his way into the world with a wonderful gift of prose. \u00a0But Warhol the wonderful Catholic?<\/p>\n

OK, there\u2019s the rub isn\u2019t it. \u00a0I noticed that among the comments, most of them are along the lines of \u2018cool man, I didn\u2019t know this, what a great guy!\u2019 \u00a0Though a few stepped up and pointed out that Warhol was, after all, part of the whole pornculture of the 60s and 70s, that Avant-garde universe that taught the world that wherever you can put your\u00a0genitals\u00a0for the ultimate orgasmic\u00a0experiences,\u00a0 there need be no morals to follow. \u00a0Sexual satisfaction was morality.<\/p>\n

And that is the issue here. \u00a0Some in the Catholic blogosphere, in keeping up with the modern Catholic \u00a0confusion on the issue, are taking notion that same sex attraction is not in and of itself sin, and running with it. \u00a0In some cases, it\u2019s beginning to sound as if having same sex attraction covereth up a multitude of sins. \u00a0If you make, what Mr. Barnes calls, the laudable stand of openly declaring your sexual attraction while not acting on it, apparently everything or anything else you do is off the table. Attend Mass regularly. \u00a0Struggle spiritually. \u00a0And it\u2019s fine, no questions asked.<\/p>\n

As one commenter points out, what about leading these little ones into\u00a0temptation\u00a0 What about millstones around the neck and all that jazz? \u00a0And why do we consider same sex attraction proudly proclaimed laudable? \u00a0When did that happen? \u00a0Not being a sin in and of itself is one thing. \u00a0Being a disordered appetite that is praiseworthy and to be sung over by the\u00a0angels\u00a0is something else.<\/p>\n

All of this reminds me what I came to realize during\u00a0the\u00a0great Lila Rose disaster of 2011<\/a>: the Catholic blogosphere is dominated by untrained\u00a0amateurs\u00a0 or trained\u00a0amateurs\u00a0who have only the basest\u00a0academic\u00a0training. \u00a0These folks aren\u2019t, for the most part, trained clergy, with years of theological education and actual experience in the trenches of pastoral ministry. \u00a0Without the checks and balances that come with vocational religious\u00a0ministry,\u00a0 they are free to inject their opinions,biases, viewpoints, dreams, hopes, fears,\u00a0jealousies,\u00a0triumphs\u00a0 and any one of a thousand factors into their doctrinal musings.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean they are always wrong. \u00a0In fact, that\u2019s the problem. \u00a0As often as not, since there is plenty of\u00a0information\u00a0on Catholic teaching to be had, they are quite\u00a0right\u00a0 \u00a0But one must be careful. \u00a0Before we know it, the path has verged ever so slightly off the straight and narrow onto a side street of conforming the age old\u00a0teachings\u00a0of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church with this or that particular opinion that makes me feel warm and fuzzy because I think that person, that song, that book, or that movie is just so darn swell. \u00a0Consumers of Catholic teaching via the Catholic Blogosphere be warned!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"