IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – PUBLISHED 14 MARCH 2014
IRISH Catholics have told the Vatican that the church is out of touch on sex, divorce, homosexuality and family planning.
In their responses to the Vatican’s questionnaire on the family, the Irish faithful made it clear that the church’s teachings are disconnected from real life.
The survey is part of a sounding out of the global church on these issues ahead of a synod on the family called by Pope Francis for October in Rome.
According to the Irish bishops, on the basis of the answers they collated from the country’s 26 dioceses, Catholics in Ireland feel the church’s teaching is often not experienced as “realistic, compassionate, or life-enhancing”.
On Thursday, the bishops revealed that some Irish Catholics see the church’s teaching that contraception is intrinsically wrong or that the divorced and remarried cannot receive communion, as disconnected from real-life experience.
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